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...That kind of grassroots campaigning might be a candidates' best shot during this election. For now, a change in the law is not on the docket. Hitoshi Miura, a Tokyo-based political PR strategist, says it might even change after the election. "Sure it's a problem now," he says, "but they will forget about because it's not a serious matter for them after the election." That, not only with regard to the campaign process, is something the electorate might want to bear in mind over the next 12 days...
...Washington A Ruling on Race In the most anticipated case on its docket, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a group of white and Hispanic firefighters who sued after their passing scores on a promotion exam were thrown out because black applicants performed poorly on the test. The workplace-discrimination case, Ricci v. DeStefano, had drawn intense scrutiny because Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had come to the opposite conclusion while sitting on a federal appeals court. The narrow 5-4 ruling, issued on the final day of the term, found that officials in New Haven, Conn., relied too heavily...
...teaching moments.” Further legislation will be required to implement the committee’s suggestion to change processes regarding votes for the dismissal of a student and how appeals are heard. These new recommendations place the responsibility with the Faculty Council and its Docket Committee. The full faculty currently hears dismissal cases, but for reasons of privacy, it is not feasible to distribute supporting documents to all voting members—700–800 people. The committee has recommended that cases of dismissal should be delegated to the Faculty Council, rather than the full faculty...
...Circuit Court of Appeals hears plenty of cases involving business and securities law but not many that touch on the hot-button issues that make for good attack ads. Abortion, the death penalty, gay rights, executive power - those haven't come up much, if at all, on Sotomayor's docket. The White House says its nominee has been fully researched, but Republicans are pinning their hopes on the fact that the Obama Administration has had a somewhat spotty vetting record...
...That, however, was a mere drop in Bip's trademark flower-sprouting hat. The 400 objects auctioned on Tuesday generated $342,000. Wednesday's docket of 500 items is expected to generate even more, as the majority of Marceau's costumes and stage props...