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He told of racing to his house in Maryland from Dulles Airport because he had been told to expect a call from President Bush at a certain time . In that way , they also are most like the cases the Supreme Court hears , said Donald R. Songer , a political scientist at the University of South Carolina who studies appellate courts.The idea of trying to gauge a judge 's ideology from his voting patterns on different types of cases is unpopular among law professors who prefer to study legal reasoning case by case . There 's more to this town than just Democrats and Republicans , though they 'd never know it , never even fathom it , what with their chronic obsession with each other.But as the new Alfalfa Party nominee said last night in accepting the nomination during the Alfalfa Club 's annual dinner , " Quitus whinus over spiltus milkus . " Veterinary clinics are regulated to a higher degree than abortion clinics , and to me , abortion is an invasive procedure and ought to be regulated at least to the same degree , " said Del. Phillip A. Hamilton ( R-Newport News ) , chairman of the Health , Welfare and Institutions Committee . The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , nevertheless , reaffirmed the death sentence , saying that if an error was made , it was harmless to the outcome of the jury 's decision.And so Smith v. Texas ( 05-11304 ) was back before the Supreme Court yesterday , with Smith 's advocates and others - - including four retired federal appeals court judges - - arguing that the state court ignored specific directions from the Supreme Court.As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put it , it was as though the state court were saying , " Thanks , thanks , that 's very interesting advice , " but we're deciding it on different grounds.But the state appeared to have strong supporters in Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia.Scalia said the Texas court decided that , though the mitigating evidence should have been presented more straightforwardly , it was in the best position to decide that such evidence would not have affected the jury 's decision to sentence Smith to death . Many U.S. troops still remain in the South , though their numbers have decreased since the 1960s . Stevens also was above average in voting to take cases , he said.Others say that an increasingly homogenous appellate judiciary appointed by Republican administrations is producing fewer conflicting opinions among circuits , a chief characteristic of the kinds of cases the justices like to take . " If he is the fifth vote , which is the conventional wisdom , we have to come up with something that explains why this case is n't like Stenberg v. Carhart , " the 2000 case striking down a state ban , in which Kennedy dissented , said Stanford University law professor Pamela S. Karlan , who co-wrote a friend-of-the-court brief for California doctors opposing the ban.Supporters of the ban are attempting to convince Kennedy of the opposite . " Roberts seems comfortable with reporters . Stevens said in December that he respected the court 's decision that found flag burning to be protected free speech , even though he was on the losing side of that case more than a decade ago.And , Hutchinson said , " Justice Roberts , in my view , is trying to put a human face on the court . Roh attempted to improve relations with opposition politicians and with the North , also establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union ( 1990 ) and China ( 1992 ) . " We 'll have the bill past the House before April break , " Democratic-led Congress on Wednesday to renew his fast-track authority for negotiating international trade agreements . boys in reading is equivalent to 1.5 years of schooling , and though men continue to be over-represented in college level science and engineering , girls are now more likely to go to college and persist in earning a degree , " Dee said in a recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.Dee found that assigning boys to male teachers and girls to female instructors " significantly improves the achievement of both girls and boys as well as teacher perceptions of student performance and student engagement with the teacher 's subject . Like many before us , we can work through our differences and achieve big things for the American people . To participate , go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/richmorin , look for the box headlined " Post-Stanford Experiments " and choose survey No. 4.The History of Bad IdeasWhy Boys Like ScienceSpeaking of the science gender gap , researchers have yet to fully identify its causes . " It sounds like a decision has already been made , " Marraffa said . Eight of the houses , with central hearths , have been excavated , and there may be as many as 25 of them , Mike Parker Pearson said Tuesday at a briefing organized by the National Geographic Society.The ancient houses are at a site known as Durrington Walls , about two miles from Stonehenge . " But later , Kennedy expressed worry that the federal ban might leave some women at " risk if the uterine wall is compromised by cancer or some forms of preeclampsia , " a dangerous spike in blood pressure.Such health questions are central to the most important abortion case to reach the court in half a decade.The federal law , passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2003 , bans the procedure known medically as " intact dilation and extraction , " which usually occurs in the second trimester of pregnancy . Those least likely to cut corners were grad students in the social sciences and humanities - - 39 percent said they had broken the rules.McCabe and colleagues Kenneth D. Butterfield of Washington State University and Linda Klebe Trevino of Penn State University collected data from 5,331 business and non-business graduate students at 32 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada during the 2002-03 and 2003-04 academic years.The researchers asked participants how often , if at all , they had engaged in 13 specific behaviors , including cheating on tests and exams , plagiarism , faking a bibliography or submitting work done by someone else.They found that about a third of business graduate students acknowledged committing three or more violations in the previous year . With Senate confirmation hearings scheduled to start next week , Bush administration officials and conservative allies working to win Alito 's approval say he fits within the judicial mainstream ; some Democrats and liberal advocacy groups trying to defeat his nomination say he is an ideologue.Neither characterization is completely accurate.Instead , the analysis , along with interviews of scholars who study the courts , shows that Alito takes consistently restrictive stances on some social issues and criminals ' rights but does not differ substantially from the typical judge in other areas.Overall , the analysis shows , Alito does not disagree with majority opinions more frequently than most federal appeals judges do in similar cases .