Word: cores
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...following letter refers to a write-up of Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson's Core offering, Foreign Cultures 46, `Caribbean Societies: Socio-Economic Change and Cultural Adaptations", that appeared in The Crimson's 1987-88 Confidential Guide to Courses...
Bork is no less clever and no less twisted when it comes to civil rights. He explains away his opposition to the Public Accommodations Bill, a forerunner of the Civil Rights Acts, as an "intellectual mistake" commited when he was under the sway of hard-core libertarianism. While Bork has corrected this flaw in his thinking, he has relaced it with a dogmatic faith in "the jurisprudence of Original Intent." This theory would bind America to the specific 18th Century values (allegedly) held by specific 18th Century gentleman. Lost in Bork's theoretical shuffle would be the broad guarantees...
...battle between the two--dubbed council wars by local comics who portrayed Vrdolyak as a Darth Vader and Washington as a Luke Skywalker who destroyed the "machine star" by hitting at its core, the mayor's office--had its final clash this past year when Washington showed that he had enough political clout to maintain his Democratic endorsement for Mayor. He then handily won the general election, defeating a Republican and Vrdolyak...
Perhaps the real core of intern networking comes during the annual softball games. While senatorial staffs are busy battling each other out on the diamond, experienced interns are busy lining up runningmates on the bench...
...beyond Supreme Court decisions on the matter (and which provoked a sharp rebuttal joined by his then colleague Antonin Scalia), Bork wrote that a "remarkable upsurge" in libel suits and damage awards "has threatened to impose a self-censorship on the press" as effective as government censorship. Because the core value of a free press is clearly part of the original intent of the First Amendment, he argues, judges in this instance can play an activist role -- though he rarely advocates that role in most matters pertaining to the core value of racial equality...