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...when the executive branch starts to treat the Court as just another political institution and its Justices as mere politicians, we're in for a real power grab. Don't be fooled. The Reagan-Meese-Reynolds crew is trying to weaken the judiciary and to limit the scope of judicial review not because it objects to judicial review in principle, but because judicial review stands in the way of its agenda...
...action is appropriate to remedy employment discrimination against women. In addition, the Justices will review a court-ordered promotion plan for blacks imposed on Alabama state troopers. The cases will be closely watched because the high bench has yet to define completely its views on affirmative action. "The permissible scope is unclear," says Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. "The cases are being decided one by one." In a major church-state dispute, the court will decide whether Louisiana violated the bar on establishment of religion by requiring the presentation of creationism in schools teaching evolution. And in a case that...
Stewart Gibson '87-'88, who spent a year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, also left for academic reasons. "I wanted to study something that was more limited in scope than it is possible to examine here," explains the History concentrator. "I felt the need to slow down a bit and take a look at things from the outside, and this gave me the chance to concentrate on one academic track," he adds...
Erikson said he called the police when he thought the crowd was large enough to constitute a fire hazard. He termed the party a "massive violation" of University and house policies which limit the size and scope of private parties...
...bother to film Verdi's Otello if you are going to omit its most famous aria, the haunting Willow Song, thus reducing Desdemona to a walk-on? Director Franco Zeffirelli never quite answers that question. The flamboyant Italian's 1983 cinematic version of La Traviata widened the opera's scope with tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino...