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...other African, is that they did not know they were African. Thus, on the coast both Europeans and Africans traded outsiders. In addition slavery in Africa was an important method of recruitment for the kinship group ? and the kin group was perhaps more important than the individual as the basic unit of society. Slaves conferred prestige both to the group and the individual owner. Slaves were expected to labor, but their main function was not, or not only, economic. More important, as a member of a kin group, albeit one that might be exploited or sacrificed, a slave had status...
Courts should not cede their jurisdiction over such serious situations to universities that are unwilling to guarantee due process for both the victim and the defendant. If courts do delegate their responsibility to universities, the resulting privatization of justice sets a chilling precedent. Courts ensure due process and basic rights, such as the right to be represented by an attorney, because the decisions in serious cases like Shaer's have a huge impact on people's lives. A university's determination in such a case can have a similar effect. Therefore, those rulings ought to be made by a court...
...Canadian justice system, the basic test in determining whether to grant leave is the broad public importance of a case. Harvard has yet to decide how to respond to the government's call for review, according to A. David Morrow, Harvard's top attorney on the case...
...Once their initial term of service has been honorably served, a veteran is eligible to receive the basic monthly education benefit for our nation's seniors and for our nation's children, parents and teachers by sending more dollars directly to the classroom...
...very important to that institution providing money to back basic research...