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...professors are now praising the University's measured response. "Princeton's name is not stained in the way that Duke's name is stained because the folks at Duke rushed to conclusions before they had completed the investigation," says George. "We didn't do that." "Our priority," says Cass Cliatt, a University spokesperson, "is to substantiate any reports before determining a course of action, while at the same time recognizing the need to provide support to the members of our community. It's very concerning that a student would fabricate such matters...
DEFINITION cass-ul doc-trin n. Laws, adopted in 20 states over the past two years, named after the idea that a man's home is his castle. They allow citizens to use deadly force to protect their homes, cars and places of business...
...That brings up an important point. As the court's term draws to a close, it becomes increasingly clear that Roberts and Alito - Bush's two selections for the court - are far different from Scalia and Thomas. As Cass Sunstein, the constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, describes them, Scalia and Thomas are "visionaries:" justices with a clear view of the Constitution's meaning and an equally clear sense of how they want the law to change. They write or join dissenting or concurring opinions - like the one in this case, or the one that calls for reversing...
...savings. It's whether a serious market downturn might blunt, or even reverse, China's growth. Mainland authorities have already made it clear that they are concerned about economic overheating, "and the stock market is part of that picture," says an economist at the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). On May 18, China raised interest rates for the second time in two months, marking the first time in 17 years that the government had stacked rate increases on top of each other so quickly. Beijing also announced that banks would have to maintain higher reserves-an effort to curb...
...Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology Steven A. Pinker, however, maintains that different standards apply. “We don’t worry about foxes hurting bunnies the way we worry about what’s happening in Darfur and Iraq.” Panelist Cass R. Sunstein ’75, professor of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, says he was “puzzling a lot” over another scenario offered during the discussion: is it ethical to kill a pig and harvest its organs to save five human lives...