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Kaufman's opinion is in direct conflict with two decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which has ruled that section of the immigration law "void for vagueness" in its application to homosexuals. Since the Supreme Court generally agrees to referee circuit conflicts, it may now take its own reading of the elusive euphemism...
...then he sets aside office, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower and finally lays his head upon the executioner's block. The reasons are, of course, familiar--Henry VIII wished to marry Anne, the Pope would not agree with Henry that the royal marriage to Catherine was void; unable to put aside Catherine with the consent of the Pope, Henry put aside the Pope. More would not swear to the act of Succession, for it asserted the lawfulness of the King's acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church...
...elemental octopus and love itself a surrogate ("your life, your blood in my veins"), not a solution. In despair, he turned away from human amenity and stared into the abyss of unbeing. In horror he demanded: "What is the name of the void that invades...
...blue permission cards, which were distributed during spring registration, are now void Monro said. "They were a clumsy effort," he continued, "to handle a situation that did not develop." A new system, he explained, will have to be found for next year...
...portions of Thera collapsed and sank, Galanopoulos suggests, the sea rushed in to fill the void, lowering the water on all eastern Mediterranean shores. As a result, a narrow bridge of land separating the Sea of Reeds from the Mediterranean temporarily widened -just as the Jews making the Exodus were about to flee across it. Shortly afterward, the waters that had surged toward Thera raced back in a huge wave that caught the pursuing Egyptian troops on the land bridge and swept them to their deaths...