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...would be wrong to write off the Free Staters entirely, though. Those who have moved have been putting on a display of rambunctious, representative democracy. Some prefer civil disobedience and street demonstrations: one was recently arrested at a local IRS office handing out pamphlets that said, "Hitler had a revenue service too." Although the Free State Project doesn't endorse political candidates, some members have been making competitive runs for local office, including some staunch home-schooling advocates who have been elected to local school boards. With one state legislator for every 3,000 or so citizens (the best ratio...
...dominated by women—at the Women’s Center last night. The hour-long meeting, which drew 18 students, was dedicated to reviewing the latest “masculine mystique” issue of Diversity and Distinction, a quarterly undergraduate-run magazine focusing on social and civil rights. Talk centered on the importance of studying gender roles in society. “They always focus on teenage girls, but I also think stuff happens to boys, too,” said Jessica F. Harmon ’07, the magazine’s business manager...
...Boston lawyer and then as the Clinton administration’s top civil rights enforcer, Deval L. Patrick ’78 investigated cases ranging from predatory lending to church burnings. But he first began acquiring real-life detective skills long before—as a freshman in Holworthy Hall, where he religiously watched the TV cop series “Kojak...
...threatens to undermine the minority whom it is the judiciary’s obligation to protect. This decision is especially unfortunate as there have already been indications from the New Jersey Senate and Assembly that the legislature will settle for terming this union as simply a “civil union...
...denied admission as an undergraduate. The case went to the Supreme Court, which found in her favor, but said that affirmative action could be be applied in education as long as schools didn't use a strict points-based quota policy. She is now executive director of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, the group that began the push for the referendum in 2003. Connerly has reportedly contributed $450,000 of the $2 million it has raised...