Word: aclu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...group of Brown University students is demanding an explanation of a racial imbalance in the school's first-year dorms discovered earlier in November by members of the campus chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...Taliban Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalists make the Christian Coalition look like the ACLU. After a brutal takeover, women were-ordered to go home-and stay there. Should they desire to journey outside they must cover themselves from head to toe and be in the company of a male relative at all times. So what if you're one of 30,000 widows of fallen soldiers and have to take your sick child to the hospital? Sorry. Bang. Dead. Or at least that's what happened last week to one poor mother trying to carry her critically ill infant to medical help...
...fact that there's no sure way to tell someone's age online. "Unless you make minors go around with an Internet ID that says 'I'm a kid' -- which would be great for pedophiles -- there's no way of verifying who you are," says McCullagh, who says the ACLU will challenge any such law as overbroad and vague. "Oxley and his allies may be saying it's reasonable, but their definition of reasonable is an unconstitutional...
...first whiff of a First Amendment battle is likely to erode what little public support the prosecutor still has. ?Ken Starr seems to give little heed to the basic right of all Americans to read what they want, free from government surveillance,? says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU. It?s a powerful argument -- and with Barnes & Noble set to join the fight, it all makes for the kind of ding-dong courtroom diversion that Starr really doesn?t need right...
...very last minute to apply and ended up with a limited number of options. While I loved my internship and my entire Washington D.C. experience, I still wanted this summer to be different. I wanted to be able to choose from a wide array of internships including NOW, ACLU and the NAACP. Each one would offer me the chance to work in a politically charged environment in which I would actually be able to bring about significant societal change, or at least get coffee and mail letters for those who bring about significant societal change...