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Damon said he hoped to use his celebrity status to draw attention to the plight of Harvard's workers...
Fried's constitutional arguments are that gender violence does not directly affect the national economy (thus VAWA is an invalid exercise of Congress lawmaking power under the Commerce Clause), and that Congress has no authority to use the 14th Amendment to regulate the behavior of individuals (because the 14th Amendment is designed to rein in states, not citizens). Both of these claims can be disproved with empirical evidence. Congress funded a four year fact-finding mission before passing VAWA, where it was determined that employers lose $3 billion a year to domestic violence as a result of workplace absenteeism. That...
...support of Harvard students as well ˆ we should not fail to recognize the significant impact VAWA can have on our lives. The aforementioned U.S. v. Morrison concerns a rape case at Virginia Tech: when denied proper legal proceedings at the university, the plaintiff was able to use VAWA to seek damages. Acknowledged or not, rape and other forms of gender violence constitute a problem that penetrates without compunction the ivy walls surrounding our own campus. Both enduring and watching others endure the turmoil of such violence is already a devastatingly painful experience; without the rights guaranteed by VAWA...
...tape on. I was just amazed and I called in friends and they were like, "Sure, she's on television. You're not current on anything. We all know her and she's great." I was like, "she's amazing," and I've always looked for a place to use...
...first, I found a place to use her in a movie in a small way. And then I used her in Everyone Says I Love You and I cut her out of the picture - not because of her, but I had to lose 20 minutes of it and the only way to do it was to lose her character because then I wouldn't have to do awkward surgery on the movie. It cut together very nicely without her. I've always been looking for some way to use her but when I wrote this, I didn't have...