Word: barringer
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On paper, this season will be, barring a miracle, a disappointment.
"I would have voted if I knew and trusted the candidates." Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, criticizing the government's barring of more than 2,000 candidates from parliamentary elections
MARRIED. HUNDREDS OF GAY AND LESBIAN COUPLES; by San Francisco city officials; after Mayor Gavin Newsom asked the county clerk's office to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in defiance of a California law barring homosexual nuptials; in San Francisco. Among the couples pronounced "spouses for life...
Harvard Business School has dropped a rule barring white and Asian students from a summer program after two groups opposed to race-based admissions threatened to take legal action against Harvard.
It was in this environment that Lambda declined to represent three couples who in 1991 sued Hawaii for the right to marry. By 1993 that case had quietly made its way to the state supreme court, and in May of that year the court startled the gay-rights movement--and...