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President Bush took an oath--as he said at his press conference last week--to "protect and defend the Constitution" of the United States. It's good that the Constitution is in the forefront of his mind. It should stay there. It should be engraved on his shaving mirror. It should be embroidered on Attorney General John Ashcroft's bath towels...
...closely watched case, some universities are cutting back on programs that favor minorities, so they won't be sued. Both M.I.T. and Princeton have decided to allow anyone to apply for summer programs that were previously open only to under-represented minority students. "It would be impossible to defend these programs legally," says Robert P. Redwine, M.I.T.'s dean of undergraduate education...
...student protesters, who described themselves as “The Organization To Defend America,” also had to face a counter-protest of about ten “anti-anti-French” demonstrators who began passing out pictures of the Statue of Liberty and shouting “Vive la France! Vive le Council de Securite!” before the anti-French rally had even begun...
...After the blowouts, we said, ‘Hey, why don’t we bring them in more?,’” Tubridy says. “When we play bigger, more athletic teams, the guys help us get ready for how they’ll defend us—what passes we can get away with and what we can?...
While teammates weren’t the least bit surprised Kim was the first one to jump the boards and defend his team, perhaps it was a little unusual that he tried to drive some sense into Jelenic. After all, Kim would spend most of his hockey career doing his best to (legally) knock opposing players senseless...