Word: circumventions
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Ever since the Supreme Court declared official prayers in public schools unconstitutional in 1962, some local governments have contrived to circumvent the decision; often they simply defied the law- at least until they were challenged.
The story that unfolds is that middle-class women by and large have moved outside their homes to concentrate on the typically feminine activities of health, education and welfare--and within those fields, to pay particular attention to other women and to children. It was through the groups they formed...
The implications of this ruling are enormous. Doctors will probably continue to perform early abortions when there is no question about a fetus' inability to survive outside the womb. But, fearful of sharing Edelin's fate, they may be less likely to take a chance on late-term...
"I think Bok and Dean Price have done nothing. I've seen no bold statement, seen nothing whatsoever," one government professor who declined to be named said last week. "I'm appalled at the performance of Harvard in trying to keep the complex in Harvard Square." But Harvard has already...
Although there is no hardcore evidence, it appears that in the final analysis it won't be Smith at all but Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the other Kennedy friends on the Library advisory board who will decide where and when to place the...