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...school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy.? He derided the school board?s decision as ?breathtaking inanity? and said the resulting ?legal maelstrom? was an ?utter waste of monetary and personal resources.? The judge?s decision clears the way for the plaintiffs in the case to demand repayment of legal expenses. It?s not clear, therefore, how much the case may wind up costing the taxpayers of Dover...
...With Summers and Kirby politically weakened after the maelstrom of this past spring, the Caucus has taken steps toward becoming a strong voice in Faculty affairs...
...never refer to it [that way] again.’”A LOVE STORY, WITH A TWISTIt’s important to note that the heart of “Brokeback Mountain” is not quite the quixotic romance over which the maelstrom of press has swooned. At the story’s center is the love of Ennis and Jack, but it’s a romance with its fair share of grime. Their very first sex scene is as bewildering for its rather sudden advent as its overt hostility. The two know to keep...
...perfectly honest, I’m jealous of the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC). In just over 120 words last Sunday, our student government managed to provoke the kind of maelstrom longed for by every editorialist.It was far too simple, really. “Whereas workers at Harvard University are an integral part of the greater Harvard community,” the council proclaimed, “the Undergraduate Council supports custodial workers’ efforts to improve the lives of workers at Harvard.”The floodgates opened almost immediately. In the wee hours of Monday morning, the Harvard...
...maelstrom of national media descended upon Cambridge last fall, when the court of public opinion portrayed the murder trial of Alexander Pring-Wilson as a case in which a rich, white Harvard graduate student was pitted against a poor, Hispanic local teen...