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...will force Harvard Law School (HLS) to acquiesce to an employer’s willful violation of the school’s nondiscrimination policy or forgo over $400 million of federal funding annually. In his written opinion, Chief Justice John G. Roberts ’76 dismissed both the arguments made by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)—of which Harvard is not a part—and those offered in an amicus brief signed by more than forty HLS faculty. While FAIR argued that the Solomon Amendment is unconstitutional because it inhibits universities from...
...response to Loui Itoh’s column of Mar. 1 (“Not a Time To Kill”), as I believe she has overlooked an important aspect of late-term abortion. Ms. Itoh writes, “it is very difficult for me to stomach any argument for why such a procedure should ever be permitted, except to preserve the health of the mother.” However, most of the few women who seek the dilatation and extraction procedure do so out of great need. Abortion can be a cripplingly expensive operation, particularly for poor, uninsured...
...athleticism, such as Baron de Coubertin, have maintained a strong, optimistic position against such negativism. I also wonder what the point of criticizing the spectacle of the Games—as embodied by the opening ceremonies—has on the bearing of the editorial’s main argument. As the host country, Italy presented a panorama of its heritage, which does, in fact, include the Renaissance, the Alps, and yes, cows. It is unfortunate that this creative display of tradition is dismissed as a “theater of the absurd”, rather than taken...
...Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn the other's language. But today many people in the Tamil-dominated northern capital, Jaffna...
...Anti-Semitism is a matter of intention,” Dershowitz says. “I don’t like that formulation—‘anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent’—I would not make that argument at all. I would say that his ouster had to with hard-left opposition, some of it anti--American, some of it anti-patriotic, some of it having to do with the military. In other words, I think it was political, not religious. [There] is a very sharp distinction.”Summers?...