"Wherever he roamed," Bergreen writes, "Marco Polo found examples of the natural order of things overturned: astrologers conjuring up tempests at will; salt employed as money; householders inviting strangers to lie with their wives, sisters and daughters; deadly serpents yielding life-saving medicine — a dizzying succession of curiosities and paradoxes".
It's one thing to overturn an election by means of a judicial ukase, a partisan parody of a trial, or an orgy of gerrymandering.
It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets.
The California Supreme Court had an opportunity Tuesday to do the right thing and overturn the thinly-passed Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban which the state's homophobes voted into law through a ballot referendum last November.
Until Congress does the right thing and overturns the harmful law in its entirety, he can take a first step to ensure that U.S. programs are part of the solution, not the problem.
But "We Are Not Such Things" overturns the conventional narrative of Biehl's murder by trying to establish what actually happened, and by examining its effects, over two decades, on the people involved.
- Republican Vice Presidential hope Paul Ryan thinks the Supreme Court's decision to keep prayer out of public schools – you know, because of the whole "separation of church and state" thing – should be overturned, and, instead, it should be taken care of on a state-by-state basis.
With the important exception of gay marriage, courts and legislatures have tended to follow rather than lead public opinion — waiting until public sentiment changed before doing things like overturning sodomy laws, repealing the ban on H.I.V.-positive immigrants and passing anti-discrimination bills.
These things can be overturned when people have made mistakes, so let's just move on with it".
Admiring the beautifully precise sketches made by John Kirk on the Livingstone expedition, Petra Broddle, an assistant botanist who helped lead the tours, urged visitors to imagine their journey more than 150 years ago from Central Africa to Kew. "Canoes overturned, things were lost, Kirk almost drowned, but this is here," she said, sweeping her hand above the table.
