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ITALIAN: For most, the North End is almost synonymous with Italian food. Not all restaurants are created equal, however, and of all the Italian eateries in the North End, Italian A TF Antonio Morena singles out Taranta. Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures Niña Ingrao—a native of Buenos Aires, where Italian food is prominent—suggests another option: Via Matta, in Back Bay. There, she recommends the grilled swordfish because of its excellent quality, and while “all of the desserts are heavenly,” one must have...
...very latest instance of French praise for America—Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 masterpiece Democracy in America—the author notes the remarkable “equality of conditions” in the United States and connects America’s socioeconomic equality to our democratic blessings. “By no possibility could equality ultimately fail to penetrate into the sphere of politics as everywhere else,” de Tocqueville wrote at that time. (Incidentally, a 2002 study of New World societies by the National Bureau of Economic Research backs him up, observing...
...study of theology would not have been a government endorsement of religion. Rather, government’s exclusion of scholarship funds for theology majors actively and unnecessarily burdens religion. If the state had kept Davey’s scholarship, it would have been treating religion as equal to any other pursuit. There would be an inherent pluralism in such a system. Non-religious and religious studies would receive equal treatment; and within religious studies, all religions would receive equal treatment. By singling out religion and ultimately subjugating it to any other choice of studies, the statute violates norms of neutrality...
...that benefit becomes part of the baseline against which burdens on religion are measured; and when the State withholds that benefit from some individuals solely on the basis of religion, it violates the Free Exercise Clause no less than if it had imposed a special tax...[Davey] seeks only equal treatment—the right to direct his scholarship to his chosen course of study, a right every other Promise Scholar enjoys.” Traditionally the Court’s most outspoken conservative, Scalia in this case rightly advocates individual choice...
...This] is what we should have done in the first place,” he wrote in an e-mail. “One does not easily replace a scholar like John Shearman by someone of equal status...