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...system. Exam questions at St. Stephen’s, for instance, came from a short list approved 20 years ago by the central University of Delhi administration: Students pre-prepared long strands of factual regurgitation by photocopying and memorizing past students’ answers. But even more than a custom??s ridiculousness, the outside perspective allows one to synthesize the way in which an insider glimpses such ridiculousness and yet works within the rules nonetheless. Most of us know we are at Harvard in part because of high scores on a test—the SAT?...
Some argue that it is important to preserve the sanctity of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. But the notion of preserving this traditional view of marriage—for the sake of custom??is far less important than preserving the equal rights and opportunities guaranteed to all people under the Constitution. With 4,400 out-of-state couples having already made the trek to Vermont to obtain civil unions, it is clear there is a pressing need to alter our legal interpretations in accord with our changing social customs...
Pakistan will participate in a “custom?? training initiative, Zimmerman said—a combination of a program explicitly for government officials and a less formal mid-career program...
...earlier this month, in accordance with much of the advice outlined in a memo written by Ryan in 1995, Rwanda did away with the orthodox trial system. In its place, it has reinstituted the gacaca ( pronounced ga-CHA-cha), an ancient tribal custom??literally “justice on the grass” in Kinyarwandan, Rwanda’s most spoken language...
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