Word: cannot
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...Supreme Court has already ruled that the funding of student organizations does represent a public forum for the purpose of distributing funds. In other words, a public university cannot discriminate among the groups that it funds and there is no evidence that the University of Wisconsin was selectively favoring liberal causes in its support of student groups. However, that earlier decision had expressly avoided the question of whether the school can legitimately compel students to pay for the forum...
...ways, and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, White stated, would allow a new trial or sentencing if there was a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome had the defense lawyers not shredded their credibility at the outset. "While I share the majority's horror at this carnage," White wrote, "I cannot uphold this as an acceptable standard of representation for a defendant accused of capital murder...
...argues that contracting out manufacturing does not mean the company cannot enforce working standards. Gear, he says, keeps in touch with its factories and holds them to its standards...
...middle are millions like me, living in those awkward years between promising potential and ironic demise. And the parameters of the present keep pushing in. To the tune of discarded disco anthems, our eyes pan slowly from one Gap-clad teen to another, and for 30 seconds we cannot bring ourselves to blink. The teens stare back at us brimming with serene self-assurance, mocking anyone who ever made the mistake of turning 22 and blissfully unaware that 10 years from now, they will be 10 years older...
...pioneering work," says Stephen Emlen, a professor of behavioral ecology at Cornell. And the picture is not bleak, he says. "The evolutionary approach is basically saying we carry with us some genetically influenced tendencies to behave in certain ways in certain situations. It by no means says these cannot be overcome." Emlen compares this with discovering that you are carrying a gene that statistically increases your potential to develop a disorder. "Being armed with that knowledge can be very, very empowering. You're consciously going to do everything you can to minimize that risk...