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...campus recruiting privileges to sign a non-discrimination pledge that includes sexual orientation as a protected category. The military had refused to sign the pledge, and as a result had been barred from campus. In 2002, the Pentagon—invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment??threatened to withhold several hundred million dollars worth of federal funding unless HLS granted military recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination policy. Harvard acquiesced and amended its code, this fall allowing military recruiters on campus for the first time in a quarter century despite the government?...
...Byrd Amendment??a cynical piece of special-interest pork if there ever was one—will soon, with any luck, meet its well-deserved demise. The 2000 law gave the money raised from import duties on foreign steel to American steel companies, effectively adding another layer of trade protection in the form of an industry subsidy. But last week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) cleared the way for punitive sanctions against American exports, which will hopefully coerce the United States to trade freely and fairly in the future...
...School (HLS) Boskey Professor of Law and the first black woman tenured at HLS, urged blacks in the audience to “take control of your environment” and to confront issues such as the lack of a constitutional provision—as opposed to just an amendment??that grants all citizens the right to vote...
...refreshingly strong language from a normally conservative court, the three-justice panel argued that the government must not use the vague threat of terrorism “as a basis for restricting the scope of the Fourth Amendment??s protection in any large gathering of people.” Reminding us of the eternal foolishness of trading liberties for securities, Judge Gerald Tjoflat wrote for the Court that “it is quite possible that our nation would be safer if police were permitted to stop and search anyone they wanted, at any time, for no reason...
...Pentagon—invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment??said that Harvard would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding unless the Law School granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy...