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...that has thwarted conservatives' key goals, especially an abortion ban. Recent 5-4 decisions affirming the right of a locality to seize private property or forbidding the display of the Ten Commandments on government property--even if another ruling on the same day allowed such displays in a different context--only made it plainer to them, and to liberals too, how crucial the court remains. Says Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, an influential group of social conservatives: "Clearly these issues are being decided by a slim majority...
Detainee 063 was never physically harmed. He put his health in peril with his refusal to eat and take fluids. His treatment should be put in the proper context. Prisoners at Guantánamo are fed meals that accord with their religious beliefs, they are given Korans and prayer rugs, and their health is monitored. Torture camp? Sounds more like a resort...
...stressed the role of the University within the new framework, arguing that Harvard should help provide the necessary leadership—in the form of “new thought that can apply old values in a new context created in a changing world...
...some law school students and professors. It is difficult not to feel outraged and disappointed upon hearing, for example, how Rosenberg was removed from his class for his comment that “the blacks have contributed nothing to torts”—clearly within the context of referring to black Crits. Rosenberg’s comments about his own case may be applied broadly to the climate that ruled HLS circa 2002—and probably still rules there today: “For a faculty member to be strongly criticized—and even threatened with...
...that context, it's not surprising that the idea behind BiDil--the first drug approved for a specific race--has been controversial from the start. The drug is actually a combination of two older, generic medicines. When it was first tested on the general population as a treatment for congestive heart failure--a gradual weakening of the heart--the FDA ruled that the results were not statistically significant. It was only when the drug was retested on patients who identified themselves as African Americans that tangible benefits emerged: a 43% reduction in the death rate and a 39% reduction...