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...minutes for the little more than 100 pounds of explosives they've placed in the building to bring it down. There is no official word on what will be done with the site, although the General Services Administration has said it will abide with community wishes to erect a memorial there to the bombing victims...
Clearly Title IX was not intended to close down popular sports, and nothing is gained by using it for this purpose. We can acknowledge gender differences in norms of participation without using them to erect barriers of comparison. When the demands for male and female sports are considered equally and athletes have opportunities without regard to their sex, Title IX is being observed. We should continue to see it in this light without falling into the trap of creating equations that amount to quotas. True cases of discrimination continue to be recognizable. Title IX will sift them...
...basic task is the same: erect an old-fashioned pyramid of donors in which each operative identifies 10 to 20 people who can each give $1,000, the maximum allowed by law. Each donor is then pressed to identify another 10 to 20 friends to do the same. The complex task of assembling so many names helps explain why veteran fund raisers, who boast networks of anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give...
...Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, which wants to erect a cross on the Ohio statehouse grounds. Other legal groups focus on defending antiabortion activists, while the Rutherford Institute, established in 1982, concentrates on what founder John Whitehead calls "legitimate civil liberties cases," such as school prayer and home schooling...
...erect signposts on those back roads. until recently, there was nothing like a directory to guide consumers around the Net. Now there are all kinds of directories available, from shopping listings to business-to- business directories. Online shopping centers are springing up everywhere, inviting customers to use their credit cards to buy on impulse, without even leaving their chairs. Since opening its interactive doors last October, Cybermalls, a Vermont shopping center with nearly 60 ONLINE BUSINESSES ranging from a coffee store to a marine equipment shop, has built up bustling traffic, in part, by offering free information on SKI CONDITIONS...