Word: courting
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...Boston School Committee has decided to overturn its controversial December vote to appeal a federal court ruling that declared the race-based admissions policies of the district's three exam schools--public schools with entrance requirements--unconstitutional...
Karlen, remaining loose and agile, continued to control the game play, while Snyder began yelling at himself and throwing his racket on the ground in disgust during the breaks. In the end, the freshman showed more maturity on the court than the senior; Karlen prevailed 15-9 and 15-8 in the last two games...
...fiery Harvard co-captain refused to give in although the epic match had gone almost 40 minutes. The two were on center court, and as the audience zeroed in on the climactic game, each point became more important and more hotly contested. The players fought to a 10-10 tie, when, in a defining moment, Orphan lost a step and gave up on the ball. Although the next few points were quite tense, lasting two or three minutes each, Wyant took the match...
...shows, there's one thing Americans know about being arrested: You have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney, and anything you say may be used against you. These rights became required reading for police when taking a suspect into custody after the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda ruling. But this week, a federal court in Virginia may have opened the way for the Supreme Court to put an end to a reading of the Miranda warnings. "The lower court ruling could be the start of something dramatic," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. "It could become...
...lower court ruled, in effect, that the Miranda warnings are only a constitutional suggestion, as opposed to a constitutional requirement, and that Congress nixed the required reading of the warnings when it passed an obscure law in 1968 that merely requires confessions to be "voluntary." Miranda supporters are particularly alarmed because, says Cohen, "the composition of the Supreme Court has changed dramatically since the Miranda ruling." He notes that "the high court has been quietly chipping away at defendants' rights for years." Several of today's more conservative Justices, some of whom are known to be hostile to Miranda...