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...statute in question, known as the Solomon Amendment, allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from schools that deny the military “equal access” to their campuses. Harvard Law School and many of its peers require recruiters to sign a pledge stating that they will not discriminate against gays...
...Harvard professors’ friend-of-the-court brief presented a statutory argument that the military already had “equal access” to students because all recruiters were faced with the same nondiscrimination pledge...
...text of the Solomon Amendment requires schools to give recruiters access to students “at least equal in quality and scope to the access...that is provided to any other employer.” Since all employers must comply with the nondiscrimination requirement, Harvard and other law schools can hold the military to this pledge without violating the Solomon Amendment, according to the professors’ brief...
...military and its supporters in Congress “actually want more than equal treatment; they want special treatment,” Law wrote in an e-mail. “Were the Court to adopt the statutory reading advanced by the Harvard brief, we can be pretty confident that Congress will quickly change the words...
Sniderman creates a superbly farcical yet self-contained Face, the show’s most profound character. Acting as the sycophant, the officious hustler, and the meek servant with equal ease, Sniderman brings an understated humor to Face’s many roles. He mimics the antics of the gulls with relish but is just as entertaining when he stands removed from the action, a sly smile playing at his lips. Jacobs, too, gives a forceful and lively performance as the fiery...