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...adoption—the silent third party to this feud—should not be overlooked. Nevertheless, I write to point out a course of action the piece’s authors overlooked—one that would allow the state to avoid this dilemma altogether. Massachusetts could amend its tax laws to revoke the favored tax status of private organizations incorporated under state law that discriminate based on sexual orientation. The federal tax code already provides for the revocation of favored tax treatment of otherwise tax-exempt private schools that practice racial discrimination, even for religious reasons. The Supreme...
...people. If the number of people who don't vote and vote for other parties exceeds the number that vote for Thai Rak Thai, Mr. Thaksin has said he won't be the Prime Minister. He has also said that after the election he'll move quickly to amend the constitution. We'll have an independent commission. Then we'll dissolve the parliament again and hold another vote, no later than 15 months after this election...
...working with the SLAM campaign, spoke together to publicize AlliedBarton’s allegedly unfair policies toward worker unionization. Since the employees technically work for AlliedBarton and not Harvard, SEIU and SLAM plan on pressuring the University into applying its own pressure on the company to amend its practices. “Since we don’t have a union here, they [AlliedBarton] use intimidation,” according to Solano. “They say, ‘We’re not going to fire you for starting a union, but we’re going...
...grading policy according to a 2002 grade inflation survey, a recent Brown Daily Herald poll found that 70 percent of Brown undergraduates oppose the change.The Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is hosting a forum this afternoon in an effort to voice student opinion before the faculty votes to amend the grading system.Brown’s current curriculum, implemented in 1969, does not have distribution requirements and allows students to take courses pass/fail or with whole-letter grades.Brown’s College Curriculum Council proposed last semester to add pluses and minuses to the curriculum but agreed to hold...
...American officials will now work hard to sell the deal on Capitol Hill, where there?s been some skepticism from those who think it undermines nonproliferation treaties. Congress would have to amend two laws including a 52-year-old statute that prohibits sales of nuclear supplies to countries that do not agree to international standards. Singh must do a comparable sales job in India, where the nuclear program is a source of great national pride and any international inspection is regarded with wariness...