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Review: Chevy Volt — electrifying

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Oct. 21 (Review) - GM has succeeded in making an outside-the-box electric vehicle that's alluring almost any way you look at it, including under the hood.

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The Seinfeld Hearings

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Randy Barnett: - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - If you suspect this week's Senate confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor will be, like "Seinfeld," a show about nothing, you are probably right. To understand why, we need to revisit an era that remade how lawyers and the public think about law, and especially the Constitution. In the 1930s, academics developed a philosophy they called "legal realism" to undercut judicial resistance to "progressive" statutes such as laws restricting the hours a baker or a woman could work. Legal realism elevated just results over the rule of law. It saw analysis of "the law" as an after-the-fact rationalization that allowed reactionary judges to conceal their empathy for the oppressed. Because legal realists believed judges inevitably made law when they ruled, they thought judges should decide cases with progressive ends in mind.

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Op-Ed Contributor - A Homespun Safety Net - NYTimes.com

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Barbara Ehrenreich - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - Finding little relief, and lots of pain, in the American safety net, those slipping into poverty turn to family and friends.

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Easement will protect the Chuitna River

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Donita Hensley - May. 21 (Opinion) - For more than 40,000 years the Dene people have cultivated and been nurtured by the land and waters around Tyonek, a village 40 miles west of Anchorage on Upper Cook Inlet. At the very heart of this land is the Chuitna River, its source for abundant wildlife, diverse vegetation and natural beauty.

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The responsible shopper as do-gooder

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boulder Daily Camera - By Julian Friedland - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - One of my pet peeves is the notion that consumers who attempt to shop responsibly are merely vain and somewhat hypocritical shoppers who seek elevated do-gooder social status.

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