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Joined by new Justice Stephen Breyer, the U.S. Supreme Court began its 1994-95 term by facing a light -- though politically potent -- docket. Among the cases the high bench plans to decide in the months ahead: whether states can impose term limits on members of Congress, whether the federal child-pornography statute is constitutional, whether Congress has the power to ban guns from the vicinity of schools and what kinds of federal minority-preference programs are legal...
...real news to me, not worthy of more than a small item on the court docket column of the newspaper. Or a brief mention on only one of the major networks, without a picture and at the end of the broadcast. A 30-second news spot in a morning radio show: "O.J. Simpson, the Hall of Fame running back, was today arrested in connection with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole...
Liston '95 said the council's executive boardagreed Wednesday night to place the resolution onSunday's docket...
When fairies invade England's House of Lords, there's bound to be some disruption in the docket. The operetta, Iolanthe, brings nothing less than interracial marriage, capital punishment, and the class struggle into the stodgy chambers. Even more remarkably, it resolves these and other hefty issues in a mere two hours, all set a rapid-fire patter rhythm with a few love scenes tossed in to spice up the action. A little fairy magic sure does a lot for a body of government...
Department Chair John Huehnergard and professorof the practice of Biblical Hebrew and NorthwestSemitic Epigraphy Jo Ann Hackett presented theirproposal to the council, which unlimitedly agreedto vote the plan to the docket of the next Facultymeeting