Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal court ruled that limiting enrollment to black boys was unconstitutional. But with few applications from girls and non-black students, the schools effectively achieved their goal. Similar schools have been established in other cities, including an all-girls school in New York City known as the East Harlem Girls' School...
...elections are already being hailed as the most important of our generation. Control of the White House and both chambers of Congress is up for grabs, as well as influence over the nominations of several Supreme Court justices. Nowhere is the urgency of the moment played up more than in New York, where the upcoming Senate race has already become a celebrity death match of sorts. Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani may as well announce their intentions to run for the Democratic and Republican senatorial nominations, respectively, because they have been in the race for quite a while already...
...both sides appear ready for a court fight, the University and Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz moved a step closer this week to exhausting the school's avenues for resolving disputes internally...
Students in the class meet famous environmental lawyers and government officials, talk with local farmers, reenact a court case, learn New England botany, discuss nature writing with authors, research term papers that often lead to theses and travel to Costa Rica for an in-depth look at one community's grassroots conservation efforts. The nine-year-old course has subsisted for the past five years as an ESPP tutorial, with only 25 percent of its funding provided by the university. Outside sources have supplied the rest: E.O. Wilson, the father of conservation biology and one of Harvard's most renowned...
...March of manslaughter, was convicted by a military jury of obstruction of justice and conspiracy for helping destroy an in-flight videotape that might have shed light on the accident. That is the charge that stuck to Capt. Richard Ashby, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, after the first court-martial revealed a series of mix-ups and deficiencies up and down the chain of command that may have contributed to the accident. Ashby's sentencing hearing, which could result in dismissal or up to 10 years behind bars, continues on Monday...