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    Oct 12, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  1. Occupy Wall Street shifts from protest to policy phase

    How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment?
    How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment? One clue is when the protesters are casually dismissed as hippies or rabble, or their principles redefined as class envy or as (that all-purpose insult) "un-...

    Tags: Republican Party, Finance, World War I (1914-1918), Jamie Dimon, Columbia University

    2. Sep 22, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book review: 'Making Our Democracy Work' by Stephen Breyer

    The United States Supreme Court likes its mystery: Cases are argued in public, briefs are available for all to read, but its real work is carried out in conferences attended by the nine justices alone. So private are those deliberations that in the rare instances when they are interrupted, it is by a knock on the door; the junior justice, by tradition, answers, is passed a note, closes the door, and then delivers the news to the brethren.
    Los Angeles Times
    The United States Supreme Court likes its mystery: Cases are argued in public, briefs are available for all to read, but its real work is carried out in conferences attended by the nine justices alone. So private are those deliberations that in the rare...

    Tags: Democracy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Politics, Antonin Scalia, Earl Warren Jr.

    3. May 6, 2009 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  3. The best nominee? Surprise us

    By the end of the week, we'll probably know who President Obama plans to nominate as retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter's successor. With all respect to the crack economic team the president has working overtime to keep as many of us...

    Tags: Lawyers, Politics, Earl Warren Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, Local Government

    4. Jan 8, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Alito's moment

    SUPREME COURT nominations are as old as the republic, but the modern history of the battles over court appointments begins in 1987. That's when the Senate rejected Robert H. Bork, the conservative appellate judge who President Reagan nominated to replace Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., the swing-voting centrist on what was then, as now, a closely divided court.
    a lawyer in private practice, is the author of "Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court."
    SUPREME COURT nominations are as old as the republic, but the modern history of the battles over court appointments begins in 1987. That's when the Senate rejected Robert H. Bork, the conservative appellate judge who President Reagan nominated to...

    Tags: Republican Party, Referenda, Crimes, Politics, Lawyers

    5. Jun 14, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Another J. Edgar Hoover?

    KENNETH D. ACKERMAN is author of "Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties."
    WHAT created J. Edgar Hoover? He reigned with an iron fist as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years, until the day he died in 1972. By then, Hoover had evolved into an untouchable autocrat, a man who kept secret files on millions of...

    Tags: Crimes, Politics, Death, World War I (1914-1918), Prisons

    6. Jan 2, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Starr hasnt changed his stripes

    In his glowing profile of Kenneth Starr, Jim Newton says: "Starr is neither monster nor prude. ... he speaks most eloquently on the notions of service and compassion. ... Today, he describes himself as 'an encourager and a facilitator,' referring to that...

    Tags: Lawyers, Politics, Local Government, Juneau, Justice System

    7. Aug 12, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Faceoff: Mount Rushmore vs. the Crazy Horse Memorial

    <i>Black Hills, S.D.</i>
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Black Hills, S.D. Borglum or Ziolkowski? Within a day of arrival in the Black Hills of South Dakota, you'll run into this question, probably somewhere along U.S. 16 as you roll between two of the largest sculpted mountains on the face of the Earth....

    Tags: Dining and Drinking, Science and Technology, Tourism and Leisure, Employees, World War II (1939-1945)

    8. May 30, 2012 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  8. Book focuses on Jews and alcohol

    Jews and Booze. By Marni Davis. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 261 Pages. $32. New Yorker Marni Davis moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work for her doctorate in American Jewish history at Emory University. Her dissertation is the basis for this...

    Tags: Education, Judaism, Henry Ford, Religion and Belief, New York University

    9. Dec 5, 2011 |Story| WGHP

  9. WFU Library Displays Unique Christmas Tree

    O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree. How lovely are your Business Periodical Indexes.
    The Winston-Salem Journal
    O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree. How lovely are your Business Periodical Indexes. So maybe the Christmas "tree" in the Professional Center Library at Wake Forest University isn't worthy of a song. But, the tree surely gets points for creativity....

    Tags: Apple iPod, Holidays, Christmas, Wake Forest University, Religious Festivals

    10. Jan 3, 2012 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  10. A mustard museum? Only in Wisconsin

    MIDDELTON, Wis. &#8212; Barry Levenson stopped in his hotel hallway, looked both ways, then pocketed a tiny jar of room service mustard on a discarded tray.
    MIDDELTON, Wis. — Barry Levenson stopped in his hotel hallway, looked both ways, then pocketed a tiny jar of room service mustard on a discarded tray. Never mind that as an assistant Wisconsin attorney general 25 years ago, he was about to scale...

    Tags: Museums, Documentary (genre), Ketchup, U.S. Supreme Court, Colleges and Universities

    11. Jan 8, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune
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    12. Jul 12, 2009 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  12. Justices who rule America examined in Packing the Court

    The New York Times
    In the wake of the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott ruling, which effectively made slavery legal in the territories, Lincoln declared in his first inaugural address that "if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole...

    Tags: Politics, Local Government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Activism, Constitutional Issues

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