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...government's argument that guns in schools contribute to violence, which in turn hampers students' learning and hurts the economy by making students less productive. The court was deeply divided, however. Justice Stephen Breyer, who called the majority ruling "extraordinary," took the unusual position of reading from the bench a portion of his dissent, which argued that "gun-related violence in and around schools is a commercial, as well as a human problem...
After receiving a bye on Friday, the Crimson breezed through matches Saturday against Wellesley and MIT, making extensive use of its bench and testing out strategies...
...week at the lab, it turned out that a longtime post-doctoral fellow was leaving. We had the obligatory dinner in Chinatown and then made our way to a local piano bar. Not just any piano bar, mind you, but the one that advertised on almost every bus station bench in the city--two duelling pianos, four painists, "Great Balls of Fire" and the like. High publicity equals high security, I thought as I began to sweat...
...Jurists on our Commonwealth's historic high bench uniformly possess the quality of fairness or at minimum the appearance of fairness or at minimum the appearance of fairness," the committee said in a written statement. "Fried fails to pass this basic test...
Other landlords agreed, accusing tenant groups of being unable to accept their defeat at the bench and in the voting booth...