Word: spirits
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...policing in New York was made possible by a string of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have increased police discretion and permitted law enforcement agents to circumvent the spirit of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment's assurance of equal protection. In only the most upsetting of recent string of decisions, the court ruled in Whren v . U.S. that the police were not out of line when they used a minor crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing...
...class' dozen students take their painting of nudes very seriously. "You don't get turned on, you study the form of the body," Sam explains. Moreover, the artist must decide how to express the human body, whether it be in the spirit of sensuality or of revulsion. For Sam's third painting, he gave the woman a pirate character...
...spirit of liberalism, students who did decide to join wanted to widen the scope of membership to include a greater number and range of people. Newell Flather '61, who served on the selection committee as vice president of the Pudding, says the application process in the early 1960s was simple. When the committee went over applications, they established a rule: "If someone on the committee knew them and liked them, they would be elected. If someone of the committee didn't like them, they would not be elected unless there was a groundswell of support...
...Cambridge has traditionally played an active role in breaking down barriers of discrimination against gays and lesbians. This ordinance, perhaps ahead of its time, is a prime example of that spirit. It is disheartening to see these efforts under attack from the forces of intolerance...
...Notre Dame, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau sent a murmur through the crowd by claiming, falsely, that the Pope had recognized Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. Tamimi's presentation, delivered in a harsh tone, was so bitterly partisan that the moderator felt the need to "remind everyone of the spirit in which we came here today, as religious people who can put aside our politics." The Pope sat through much of the meeting with his hand to his forehead, although whether out of fatigue, disappointment or despair was hard...