Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled against the University of Texas, indicating that the school's affirmative action program discriminated against whites...
...Circuit Court's decision has jurisdiction only in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. But while the legal effects of the ruling and the refusal to rule are limited to those states, it is clear that other areas of the country are interested in the outcome of the case: nine states, including Massachusetts, supported Texas' appeal in friend-of-the-court briefs...
...court said parts of the law could be enforced even if other sections were struck down as unconstitutional. The Justices, however, did not rule on the constitutionality of the provisions. TIME's Ann Donohoe reports that because this is a technical ruling, the law will be tried again in circuit court - this time on the constitutionality of its contents. Regardless, pro-choice advocates say the Supreme Court's ruling is likely to encourage state legislatures to further challenge federal abortion rulings. But Donohoe cautions: "So many states these days are acting independently with their own abortion laws. Utah decided this...
...first learned about Kedlaya from my first-year roommate Hank Chien, another member of the math elite subculture. My roommate had placed twelfth in the U.S. Math Olympaid, so he always had stories about what life was like on the math competition circuit. ARML, AHSME, AIME, USAMO, MOP--I was buried in math acronyms during my first year at Harvard. Naturally, I quickly learned the names of the legends in the math community, most of whom were at Harvard--Lenny Ng, Sergey Levin, Manjul Bhargava...
...began to tour full time. The Southeast has a fertile music scene with plenty of places for young bands to find an audience, from the Georgia Theater in Athens to the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta to Rockafellas, the Elbow Room and Green Streets in Columbia (young bands on this circuit don't earn much; if you're in it for the money, move to Seattle). Hootie fitted right into the Southern pop-rock scene, playing clubs, bars, parties: any parties--birthday parties, frat parties, you name it. They would would sing REM and U2 covers and maybe a few Hootie...