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...Supreme Court just unleveled the playing field, and religion is stuck in the divot. In a ruling against first-year Harvard Law School student Joshua D. Davey, the Court upheld a Washington state statute, which effectively rescinded Davey’s Promise Scholarship after he chose to pursue an undergraduate degree in theology at his parochial university. Had Davey chosen to pursue any other degree at his religiously-affiliated university—or theological studies at a secular university—his scholarship would have been funded. Such a standard discriminates against religion when it ought to be neutral...
When a scandal hits, most coaches have the foresight to tread carefully around every public word they say—or simply shut up. Gary Barnett, head coach of the University of Colorado football team, chose not to follow this example when he spoke at a press conference discussing the rape allegations of former placekicker for the Buffalos, Katie Hnida...
...coach has a greater responsibility than winning. He or she fosters an atmosphere, which should be one where zero-tolerance is given to harassment, just as it is given to other transgressions. But Barnett chose to perpetuate the “good ol’ boys” network, for which he’s a card-carrying member. Also, by consistently turning a blind eye, he condoned the actions of his players even off the field...
...initial reaction was that I felt that the critics of the movie had, if anything, understated the degree of anti-Semitism of the movie,” he said. “At every juncture where there was some ambiguity in the Bible, he chose to paint the Jews as bad as possible...
Sometimes a patient can appear to do everything right but still end up paying the ultimate price. For her chin tuck, a procedure generally characterized as routine, Goldsmith chose the best board-certified plastic surgeon royalties could buy and had the operation at a respected hospital but still had a bad reaction to anesthesia. Her death was not necessarily related to plastic surgery; it might very well have happened during an emergency appendectomy. It did, however, cause a momentary flutter in the plastic-surgery community. Doctors across Florida, California and New York said they received a few concerned calls from...