Word: circuitousness
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Kagan’s decision came after a panel of judges from the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-to-1 that the 1996 statute is unconstitutional because it violates law schools’ First Amendment right to express their opposition to discrimination against gays and lesbians...
...Third Circuit panel’s ruling came in a suit filed by a coalition of law schools called the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) along with a group of legal scholars and several individual plaintiffs. Harvard is not part of the coalition...
...year like Federer's 2004, when - without the guidance of a coach - he won three of the four grand slam titles and amassed a 74-6 win-loss record. If those six defeats make him sound less than invincible, it may do to acknowledge that the ATP circuit is a grind so relentless that players either turn down the intensity dial occasionally or else burn out. Whenever it mattered, Federer rose: he did not lose to anyone in the Top 10 and won all 11 finals he contested. He has to be favored to defend his Australian Open title, climaxing...
...capital punishment," he says. And he's unapologetic about his use of the media to promote his work. "When I returned from Bangladesh in 1971 and wrote of the horrors I saw there, I obeyed all the rules back then for [an] intellectual with a book: the university circuit, stayed low-key, scholarly, no noise. The result: no readers, no critics, no attention drawn to the drama I had addressed. Since then, I've vowed to do whatever necessary to get people reading about burning issues and crises." The attacks on Lévy are unlikely to have much effect...
Bush turned to Chertoff, a judge who sits on the Third Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, to head the DHS after his first choice for the position—Bernard B. Kerik—withdrew his name last month...