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...cast deserves Academy Awards. Nearly all the bad guys seem too mechanical. As a result, the sense of warrior-like competition between Willis and the bad guys is lost. In the first movie, there is more of a sense that Willis is playing a deadly game of chess against formidable, intelligent and very real foes...
...with his arm in a cast loses at chess...
Decisively coming down on the side of free expression last week, the court gave that statute a broad interpretation. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor declared that the law's equal-access requirement can be triggered by the presence of any group, even a chess club, that does not "directly relate to the curriculum." She maintained that, just like college students to whom the court has previously applied equal-access principles, "secondary school students are mature enough and are likely to understand that a school does not endorse or support student speech that it merely permits on a non- discriminatory basis...
Justice John Paul Stevens lambasted the decision in his lone dissent. "Can Congress really have intended," he wrote, "to issue an order to every public high school in the nation stating, in substance, that if you sponsor a chess club, a scuba diving club, or a French club -- without having formal classes in those subjects -- you must also open your doors to every religious, political, or social organization, no matter how controversial or distasteful its views may be? I think not." Even Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who concurred with the majority ruling, expressed serious reservations. In order...
This year, however, hasn't been as bad for the University as some people suppose. Harvard's math team, chess team, bridge team and on-topic debate team placed first in the country against formidable opposition. Put bluntly, we kicked some intellectual butt...