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...Number of Supreme Court Justices who had conflicts of interest in the case's appeal, requiring the court to affirm a lower-court ruling allowing the suit to move forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...should not conflate gender and sexuality. But to merely abandon the mainstream medium is not a guarantee virtue. Alas, Shvarts should have been dismissed as an attention-seeking ninny, but instead she was launched into the national spotlight. Just how far has our bar fallen? The rush to affirm our commitment to social progressivism on college campuses has sadly left us in an abyss.Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Ars Gratia Artis? | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

Cullen did affirm the value of such dinners, saying they were especially worth attending with “such a good guest” as Fournier. But Cullen said the Clinton-Obama focus of the questioning wore...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Democratic Race is Obama’s To Lose, Says Fournier | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Burns Night is also an occasion for Scots at home and abroad, from Ewan McGregor to Gordon Brown, to affirm their identity as part of a fiercely proud people. Scotland's official national day is actually St. Andrew's day, November 30, but it's not a holiday and passes barely noted. Scots would rather celebrate their heroes, it seems, than themselves, and Burns Night is just such an excuse for patriotic revelry refracted through the egalitarian everyman poet who so captured the national psyche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bacchanal of Burns Night | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

...ahead, defense, vanquish your tenth and final offense and seize your destiny. It will only affirm another shopworn adage in this paint-drying Yale season: defense wins championships...

Author: By Alex Goldberger, YALE DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTER | Title: Defense Key for Bulldog Triumph | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

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