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...maxim of Harvard Law School reads “Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege”—“not under man but under God and law.” The notion that all people are equal before the law is a bedrock of the American judicial system. All defendants have the same degree of accountability for their actions, whether they are rich or poor, whether they are male or female, whether they have spent their lives studying rocks or quarrying for stones. Being an eminent professor gives no special license to break...
...don’t believe there is a chance I’ll be physically injured. When it first happened, it felt like the one thing that was bedrock was taken away. My worry isn’t a bomb will be dropped on Harvard,” Roark said...
Facing a second consecutive year of losses, thunderstruck hordes of investors have begun to move serious money out of stocks and into bonds, money-market funds and savings accounts. That's not quite the mattress, but as the bedrock of Americans' retirement goals--401(k) assets--keeps withering, you can practically hear the people wail, "Where, oh where, have you gone, Bob Rubin? What, oh what, will you do, Alan Greenspan...
...With its slow-motion calisthenics and Buddhist philosophical bedrock, Falun Gong seems incontrovertibly Chinese. But the world is a hungry place for new beliefs. And while Falun Gong has been labeled a dissident movement within China?which is how many non-Chinese first heard about Falun Gong and became interested?there are practitioners around the globe with little or no political agenda. Adherents say Falun Gong practice groups can now be found in more than 40 countries and that Master Li Hongzhi's writings have been translated into 10 languages...
...fate of the three Americans. Arroyo wants to crush the "bandit-terrorists," as she calls them. "We'll give you the peace of the grave," she vowed after the rebels escaped an army siege two weeks ago. That's a good demonstration of the determination that is the bedrock of Arroyo's character?which transformed the former economist and bureaucrat into a popular politician who wasn't afraid to assume her country's presidency in the wake of a popular revolt rather than in a traditional election...