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...holding, Roberts singled out the Harvard professors’ brief and later wrote that the Harvard faculty members’ interpretation of the Solomon Amendment is “clearly not what Congress had in mind.”The Harvard professors had asked the court to avoid a constitutional showdown by adopting an alternative interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. In doing so, the professors pursued a novel legal tactic in a court battle that raged for more than two years. But the Harvard professors’ tactic did not sway their former student Roberts?...
...continue to direct their anger at me and not at my coauthor or the Journal’s staff, which has dealt with a difficult situation admirably.” When interviewed by The Record, the HLS weekly newspaper, in March 2002, Camara said that he “avoids [racially insensitive language] strenuously in public conversation,” and that the word is not reflective of his views on race. He also said that he would try to avoid using racial slurs in the future. “I will make a much more conscious attempt than...
...deliberate burial makes it especially frustrating for scientists that the Corps in 1998 dumped hundreds of tons of boulders, dirt and sand on the discovery site - officially as part of a project to combat erosion along the Columbia River, although some scientists suspect it was also to avoid further conflict with the local tribes. Kennewick Man's actual burial pit had already been washed away by the time Stafford visited the site in December 1997, but a careful survey might have turned up artifacts that could have been buried with him. And if his was part of a larger burial...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ implicit message for the next president is to be a soft-soaping glad-hander, avoid controversial topics, and stick to a politically correct ideology which won’t offend the fragile egos in your midst. Raise money, wear the suit well, and fly under the radar, and my hunch is you’ll be their hero...
...Given all the toxins in the water, about the only way to avoid a full congressional break with Bush on the ports deal is for the White House to offer Congress a chance to review and oversee the sale. But that is a step the Administration has continued to rule out. And so the President's party is poised for an unprecedented revolt...