Word: pennsylvania
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Grogan cited Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) as schools faced with this kind of declining neighborhood...
Harvard was ranked first in student life and tied for first in facilities with Princeton. But, according to the survey, it falls behind Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton in both faculty and in administration...
Princeton received an overall score of 178 points while Harvard received 165. Third-place Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania each scored...
...strip down its complicated message on the legality of outlawing nude bars. It's an issue the court has tackled before, but without much decisiveness: A convoluted 1991 ruling, which included four separate majority opinions, upheld the constitutionality of such laws. Before the court now, however, is a 1998 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in favor of Erie, Pa.'s Kandy's Dinner Theater, which challenged a local public indecency ordinance and bills itself as the "First Amendment Rights Headquarters." The state court sided with the dissenting opinion in the 1991 Supreme Court case, saying the court's majority delivered...
...case highlights a growing criticism of the Supreme Court of the past 25 years - that modern justices' proclivity for delivering splintered decisions muddies the rule of law. "The most interesting aspect of this case," opines TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders, "is that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw up its hands and basically told the Supreme Court, 'Please do your job and provide us guidance.'" Sanders notes that while the Supreme Court in the first half of the century traditionally filed single 10-page majority opinions, the current court typically files multiple 50-page opinions on each side of a decision...