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...Civil Rights Act blocks federal funds to programs that discriminate on the basis of race, and the Title IX legislation passed by Congress in 1972 prohibits federal grants to schools that treat men and women unequally.“If you want Title IX to exist, you need to imagine that Congress can make schools concede some education policy decisions if they take federal funding,” Janet Halley, a professor at Harvard Law School, told The Crimson in September.A win for FAIR would also be a watershed moment because it would mark the first time that public institutions...
...governors down to village store managers - who are fired or arrested if they fail to deliver. The Batska's authority does not rest on a monolithic party but on a personal ideology, such as it is, based on his own proclamations. A sample: "Private property has the right to exist, but it must be under the state's control." Lukashenko has decreed his views must be taught at schools and universities, and ordered every company, state-run or private, to name a director for ideology who functions as the regime's political commissar. "The President," says a senior Western diplomat...
...Still, Belarus' opposition leaders fret that Western governments do not do enough about the country's plight. "We're not a pivotal area, like Ukraine," says Milinkevich, "so the world doesn't really care." It won't be easy for Belarusians to free themselves. The opposition parties that still exist are not allowed to publish newspapers, and face routine police harassment. Their ranks have dwindled to several thousand members. But leaders are hoping that a show of unity behind one candidate might make a difference at the polls. Even so, Milinkevich is already looking beyond the July vote. He says...
...Shake a hand or open a door, and you leave with a menagerie of hitchhikers and parasites--yeast, bacteria--clinging to your palms. As any hypochondriac will tell you, cleaning up is a quixotic quest. The only hygienic surface is one that sterilizes itself. And how many such surfaces exist...
...other huge, strong men, and we’re like, ‘you’re really not,’” jokes director J. Jacob Krause about his scrawny actors. “The script is talking about things that don’t really [exist] onstage.”“WELCOME, GENTRY”Nineteenth-century operatic parodies of Gothic literature may sound more like a freshman seminar than an evening of college entertainment. But the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) manage two highly entertaining productions every year since their...