Word: split
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While the Supreme Court unanimously found that Clark should have ordered the local officials to raise taxes rather than doing so himself, the court split bitterly on the question of whether federal judges may intervene in matters of taxation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White said that to deny judges that right "would fail to take account of the obligations of local governments . . . to fulfill the requirements that the Constitution imposes on them." But Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the dissent, acidly observed, "Today's casual embrace of taxation imposed by the unelected, life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fundamental...
...south is alive and well in the nation's capital. When Sen. Albert J. Gore '69 (D-Tenn.) introduced a gramatically flawed amendment to the Clean Air Act several weeks ago, Sen. John H. Chafee (D-R.I.)--reportedly called him on the carpet for using a split infinitive. Had Gore gone to Yale, Chafee told the Senate floor, his grammar might not be so atrocious. But Gore--displaying more with than he had in his unsuccessful presidential bid--got the last laugh. Gore asked Chafee where he received his second two years of schooling, implying that Yale was just...
Born in Dublin, O'Connor watched her parents split up "quite violently" when she was eight. Her brother responded to the domestic tumult by "fainting all the time." O'Connor's sister began having extensive conversations with strangers in bus stations. And Sinead turned wild. She was busted for shoplifting and sent off first to reform school, then to boarding school. By the time her mother died in a car crash, her daughter hadn't seen her for nearly two years. "Her life never got better," O'Connor says, "and I suppose it was just as well that she died...
Humor is often in short supply in books by writers who assert they are funny. This is not second grade, and the territory Wasserstein covers has been strip-mined by those who preceded her -- Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman and Anna Quindlen. A piece about the split between women who shave their legs and those who don't would have to come up with some dazzling insights to merit another look. Ditto painted nails, being fat or single...
Things started off well when the Crimson's A squad (Harvard's varsity split into two squads for Saturday's action) came from behind in its first game to beat a much-improved Brown team, 11-10. The B team beat MIT's B club team, 11-7, in its first game and then practically drowned the Engineers in its second game, 18-6. In between the two B team games, MIT easily sank Brown...