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...should be able to voluntarily perform instant checks using a nationwide computerized system set to go online in 1998. But a deeply divided court disagreed over whether the law placed a too-great burden on local governments. Although lower courts have ruled Brady unconstitutional because it compels localities to adopt national standards, the court's minority believed performing the background checks was not too much to ask. Justice John Paul Stevens compared the requirement to ordering local police officers to report the identity of missing children to the federal government. "If Congress believes that such a statute will benefit...
Often lost amid the discussion of Harvard's wealth and massive endowment are the University's smaller schools, which are often forced to adopt innovative strategies in order to raise what would only be a drip into the University's colossal tubs...
According to Coalition members, the failure of previous efforts to effect change through more cooperative means led them to adopt the fund as a new tactic...
...prevent other resident tutors from similar predicaments, Kane said that the House ought to adopt "Kane's Rule," which would ensure that "no Eliot tutor shall be denied reappointment from office for the following academic year after January...
...represents the diverse student body that pulses on this campus. But does our present diversity and understanding of past exclusions mean we have to reject this institution's past? I think we can draw insight from the examples of American immigrants. Just as those who immigrate to this country adopt the American Revolution as their revolution of independence, despite the chasms of class, race and ethnicity that may divide modern immigrants to the Minute Men of two centuries ago, we, too can feel connected to Harvard's history, even though it may contain no one who looks or acts like...