Word: ruling
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...disturbing that The Crimson defends Janet Reno's decision to seize Elin Gonzalez (Editorial, April 24). The seizure was not a triumph of "the rule of law" but an alarming abuse of federal power...
...July 1987, the Boston Licensing Board strong-armed the elite Brahmin fraternities. They adopted a rule calling for the revocation of the food and liquor licenses of clubs that have more than 100 members, are used for business or professional purposes and choose members on the basis of sex, race, color or religion. The rule is worded to cover only those few clubs that were used by members primarily to conduct business over meals. Private clubs with a social orientation, like the all-male Elks clubs or the Knights of Columbus, are exempt. Title II of the Civil Rights...
...Licensing Board Chair Andrea Gargiulo did not threaten to have any liquor licenses revoked until a year later, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a challenge to New York clubs over a city rule barring membership policies that were discriminatory. This gave Gargiulo the green light. Once the gates swung open, there was no stampede of high heels, however. These bastions of maleness are, it seems, a bit too male. The parking is a hassle. There is too much booze. And while women are, in fact, welcomed, they often do not feel comfortable. Many of the first women who joined...
...rule, undergraduate prizes should be open to both men and women without bias. However, there is a clear imbalance between the number of prizes available solely to women and men. The Frothingham is just one example of a prize open only to men; in addition, there are a number of departmental awards and University-wide prizes exclusively given to male undergraduates, including the Shaw Fellowship, the Barbara Miller Solomon Prize, the William J. Bingham Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Korean War Memorial Prize and the John P. Reardon Prize. Some male-only prizes have a female equivalent; others...
...often said that jazz is the American music, but it's rarely explained why. If democracy is the rule of the poor, jazz is a uniquely democratic music--it was created by the poor, and, at least in its youth, was played primarily for the poor. Also, the rise of swing roughly corresponded to the emergence of two powerful popularizers: radio and the recording industry. As a result, swing was the first genuinely popular music--its appeal transcended class, gender and race...