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...judge majority found in favor of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of law schools who argued that the 1996 statute violates the First Amendment. The judges wrote that law schools have a constitutional right to spread their message of “fairness and justice” without undue government interference...
...society filed a suit last month claiming that their constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and religion were being violated. The group has launched six legal challenges, including one last week at Arizona State University in Tempe. Two of the suits have been resolved in the society's favor. "These students have the right to restrict membership based on their beliefs," says Steven Aden, who represents the Hastings chapter. Gay students there responded to the suit by organizing a beer bash to "toast diversity" and signing a petition calling for Hastings to stand by its policy. Dina Haddad...
...claims could be dismissed as an attempt to win favor with his Afghan jailers. Afghans often blame Pakistan for nearly every ill--a legacy of Islamabad's pre-9/11 support for the Taliban regime. But the prisoner's allegations are consistent with reports by Afghan and Western intelligence officials who contend that more than a dozen times in the past two years, they have alerted Pakistani authorities to the locations of specific Taliban hideouts, only to find that the extremists had slipped away before the raids started. (In response, Pakistani officials say the tip-offs were too sketchy.) "Right...
...that anyone actually buys Gardner's theory. He admits it's "farfetched," and even those scientists who find it stimulating think it's wildly improbable. But it does have one thing in its favor. The biocosm theory is an attempt, albeit a highly speculative one, to solve what just might be science's most profound mystery: why the universe, against all odds, is so remarkably hospitable to life...
Marriage can be a pill. Especially when you have been hired to kill your husband and--unbeknownst to you--he has been retained to return the favor. In next June's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE play married assassins who keep their real identities secret until they each get assigned a job that hits a little too close to home. The fallout is matrimonial as much as it is martial. Now, don't worry: there are still pyrotechnics and Jolie's trademark self-performed stunts. But in the end, the characters find that the toughest thing...