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...President George W. Bush's "axis of evil": "I just wanna watch Dylan live./ I won't fly into the Pentagon alive." Some of their songs can be read as cries for political change, but like everything else here, they are ambiguous enough to be easily defendable in a courtroom, should it come to that. As I sat in 127's practice bunker, I caught myself wondering, Where were you when I lived here? As recently as three years ago, it was still somewhat risque to turn music up really loud or wear Capri pants in certain parts of town...
Still an undergrad, Nabokov thought through his options. “While the performer in me was sometimes tempted by a leading role in courtroom drama, the idealism I still harbored made me less and less sanguine about the profession’s prospects,” he writes...
...justices’ move is the latest development in the bitter courtroom battle over the Solomon Amendment, a law initially passed by Congress in 1995 that requires schools to give military recruiters access to students as a condition for receiving federal funding. A Philadelphia-based Third Circuit panel ruled in November that the statute violated schools’ First Amendment rights...
...same evidence would never be permitted in a courtroom, but Strauss had seen to it that Oppenheimer was being disposed of in an administrative hearing for which courtroom niceties did not apply. The outcome was a foregone conclusion. As a deliberate act of political rehabilitation, John Kennedy would invite Oppenheimer to the White House in 1961 and later arrange for him to receive the Enrico Fermi Prize. Yet until his death in 1967, Oppenheimer would never again feel comfortable as a public advocate for a sane nuclear policy...