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Sometimes in the next few weeks, Reps Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Newton) and Thomas J. Campbell (R-Calif.) will introduce legislation to overturn a part of a federal law denying funding to law schools that prohibit military recruitment on campus because of the military's policy on gays...
Only thing is, it didn't happen. The public expressed itself in 1998 with a resounding cry of "Enough is enough." Yet the G.O.P. once again disregarded the people's will and went traipsing down Impeachment Lane. With this trial, the G.O.P. tried to overturn two elections by ignoring a third. That's three strikes...
...legislative game. In 1996, for instance, Tennessee legislators gave adoptees--except those who were the product of rape or incest--access to their birth certificate while also allowing biological mothers to tell the state they never want contact with their kids. As in Oregon, birth mothers have sued to overturn that law, saying they were promised nothing short of lifelong confidentiality (and wondering why, if adoptees can be prevented from contacting their mothers, they would have any use for the name alone). Just last month Delaware lawmakers said the state would give adoptees their birth certificate unless the birth mother...
Covington, as McDonald re-creates him in earthy, economical prose, is a cheerful believer in the biblical doctrines that Darwin's work will so thoroughly overturn. The recipient of a shipboard education in basic Christianity, yet brimming over with animal high spirits, Covington roams the wilds of South America, bringing down exotic birds by day and happily sinning away his nights with a succession of willing women. He's not a student of evolution but evolution's happy product, strong and shrewd and lusty. A nature boy. The irony is that this makes him the perfect tool of a scientific...
...such move is a proposal by Regent Bill Bagley to overturn the anti-affirmative action decision. Another proposal would require that the top four percent of students from each high school in California be admitted to the U.C. system...