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...Rockefeller would have admired, was to put an end to the unprofitable competition. In 1962 he traveled to Washington and persuaded Congress to grant the NFL the first of two exemptions to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The exemption enabled Rozelle to fold the two leagues into a single, albeit fragmented, business...
...Over the past few years, we've been more aggressive in trying to find out the reading lists for the Core Curriculum courses, because those have been the more widely attended courses," Albano says. "We've been able to get those books in, albeit in modest quantities since we don't have the mandate or space for that inventory...
...edict banning that kind of profiteering (an order which was, in any case, legally unenforceable across the pond). And there are plenty of other distinctions between O.J.'s civil trial and Woodward's, not least of which is that the au pair was actually convicted the first time around -? albeit of manslaughter rather than murder. A jury may decide she's been through enough. She is also not required to appear in person. There is one similarity with the former football star's second ordeal; the media will be kept in check this time. "I see no basis...
Similarly, Liebert argues that gays and lesbians ought to "prove beyond a doubt that homosexual union is a viable, albeit heretofore unexplored, version of virtuous living"-- suggesting that gay families are some kind of questionable new fad, like Viagra or swing dancing. Most gay and lesbian people aren't interested in proving that their relationships are "viable"--they're too busy simply living their lives together. Civil rights and basic legal benefits should not be dependent on offering evidence of our "virtue...
...sole acceptable form of sexual expression has been working out tolerably well over the past couple of millennia--I think that we ought to stick with what we know." The best way to address this argument is to prove beyond a doubt that homosexual union is a viable, albeit heretofore unexplored, version of virtuous living. Even the crustiest nostalgist will be forced to relent in the face of a thoroughly convincing argument...