Word: circuitous
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...Hammonds began the town hall circuit with low-key, primarily one-on-one meetings in Lamont Café, followed by larger group meetings in Quincy, Cabot, and Mather Houses, where she was joined by other members of the College administration to answer questions and hear students concerns about the changes—part of $77 million in reductions announced by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Monday...
...argued successfully before the court. That case was filed in Helena, Mont., challenging the constitutionality of requiring local enforcement officers to perform background checks required by the federal Brady Act, regulating handgun sales. The district court found the requirement unconstitutional but was overturned by the more liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The lower court decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1997, four years after the Brady Act passed. The ruling was, in effect, moot because a federal background database supplanted local background checks by the time the court ruled, but it left in place...
...Following Souter’s announcement, Sonia Sotomayor, an Hispanic federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, immediately became the de facto frontrunner to replace him. Other names that have been proffered include Virginia Representative Bobby Scott, an African American being promoted by the Congressional Black Caucus, and former Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan, a lesbian being promoted by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund...
...never fear if you're a Matherite saddened by DJ Straus's absence. In addition to navigating the Harvard party circuit better than an FC girl, each month the Adams House resident puts up a new "Straus Mix" on his website, a compilation of what he said are "only the best songs that I think have shown up in the last month...
...Nesson forged ahead, more boldly still. A week after the First Circuit ruled “no” on the Webcast, there’s talk of an appeal to the Supreme Court on the issue. At the April team meeting I attend, Nesson proposes suing the judges on the panel, counting them as complicit in an abuse of legal process for their erroneous ruling. The office, filled with chairs and laptops, erupts. Four letter words fly. The volume rises. Ray Bilderbeck, the clinical’s notorious dissenter, puts his head back and laughs flat...