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Until the Pelosi statement, the prior instruction from the Church's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and encyclical writing seemed to confirm Scalia's reasoning. There was an implicit understanding that the Church's admonition to its faithful to change the law permitting the choice of abortion had to be understood and applied in light of the scope of office. Catholic legislators make policy and could be so instructed, but judges, as Scalia wrote, had "no moral responsibility for the laws [their] nation has failed to enact...
...goal is to fight back and to end this hijacking of the human-rights agenda,” Dershowitz said. “This was a cancer that had to be stopped.” Dershowitz said he called the student group’s spokesperson to confirm that Hampshire had divested from Israel, and that he did not want to launch a campaign to stop donations to the college unless the college had divested. The divestment debate carries particular weight at the Amherst, Mass. college, as it was the first U.S. college to divest from South Africa...
...move was a surprise to the Gibsons, who had called Airtran's automated phone line the night before to confirm the departure time of their original flight...
...15th-17th centuries, in which low summer temperatures led to slow but uniform growth in the Spruce trees used for instruments, and that the wood's uniform density explains the instruments' high quality of sound. Last year, researchers in The Netherlands and the U.S. used medical imaging technology to confirm that the wood came from slow-growing trees, and researchers in Sweden have argued that Swedish Spruce in the country's cold North are the closest specimens Europe now holds to the wood of the Stradivari era. But Nagyvary doesn't believe the growing conditions of local forests...
...study but pointed out that cotinine only remains in saliva for two to three days after exposure to smoke, which is problematic as cognitive impairment in the elderly develops over many years. He called for further study into the effects of cumulative lifetime exposure to secondhand smoke to confirm the link...