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...Harvard, the financial stakes are enormous. If the court upholds the Solomon Amendment, Harvard would lose over $400 million in federal funds each year unless it continues to exempt the military from the nondiscrimination pledge...
...Harvard, the financial stakes are enormous. If the court upholds the Solomon Amendment, Harvard would lose over $400 million in federal funds each year unless it continues to exempt the military from the nondiscrimination pledge...
...only be excused if they “engage in appropriate activities to ameliorate the negative effects” of the military’s presence on gay and lesbian students.Facing Pentagon threats to block federal funding, Kagan announced in October that the school would cooperate with recruiters and exempt the military from its nondiscrimination policy.According to Paik, the task force will develop possible responses to the Rumsfeld v. FAIR decision, expected sometime next year.“If the decision comes out in favor of FAIR, we hope [the University] will take immediate action to reenact its nondiscrimination policy...
...success of Senator John McCain’s, R-Ariz., anti-torture legislation indirectly questioned the administration’s commitment to upholding human rights; the amendment received an overwhelming 90-9 victory in the Senate. But Vice President Dick Cheney threatened to veto the legislation unless altered to exempt the CIA from the amendment, suggesting the measure not be applied to counter-terrorism operations carried out abroad, or “by an element of the United States government” other than the Defense Department. In a disappointing turn of events, the White House is now pressuring McCain...
...security forces treat enemy detainees. Republican Senator John McCain has pushed through the Senate an amendment that would ban "torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" by any U.S. personnel, a measure President Bush has threatened to veto. Vice President Dick Cheney is lobbying to exempt the CIA from the amendment...