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That case, titled Loving v. Virginia (1967), is one of the primary decisions cited by Olson and Boies as precedent. Loving, a white male citizen of Virginia, married a black fellow Virginian out-of-state and was charged, along with his wife, with violation of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924. The couple challenged the constitutionality of this law under the Fourteenth Amendment, and on appeal, the Supreme Court of Virginia upheld it because the state has a personal stake in preserving the “racial integrity” of its citizens. In addition, since...
...diplomatic requests and disdainful of European attempts to be more of a global leader in recent years. In 2008, China canceled a summit with E.U. leaders after French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. Then, last December, China executed a British citizen for drug-smuggling - the first European to be executed in China in 50 years - despite condemnations from the E.U. and pleas from supporters that he be spared because of his mental illness. And at last year's Copenhagen climate conference, E.U. leaders were shocked by China's scorn for European efforts...
...embassy refused to send a fax to the ministry with only a copy of my passport and a letter from the Harvard School of Public Health explaining my reason for travel to Gaza. “We do not offer that service,” the Chief of American Citizen Services told me. “You don’t help Americans communicate with the Egyptian government?” I asked indignantly after having been in Cairo for two weeks. “Not about traveling to the Gaza Strip,” she replied...
...Catcher in the Rye in luring readers to imagine the young character’s "life" that follows the book’s end. Twain teasingly ventured in his autobiography that Huck became "a justice of the peace in a remote village in Montana and was a good citizen and greatly respected." An essayist in Time conjured Holden at 40 as a Columbia alum who left his PR job to become a country club golf pro; divorced and remarried with two daughters, he ended up teaching at a prep school in dangerous, dirty 1970s New York. For the many...
...According to radio ratings service Arbitron, 90 percent of talk radio’s listeners are over age 35 and almost 90 percent are white. Derrick is an under 35, Harvard-educated, African-born, naturalized American citizen,” Koehl said...