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...naming debacle is just another example of politicians trying to have their cake and eat it too. By attempting to appease those who want religious symbols removed from the government, they angered those in support of the Christmas tree, while offering only a meaningless gesture for those in favor of secularization. If Boston is going to continue to hold a tree-lighting ceremony each winter, city officials should be honest with citizens and call the tree a Christmas tree...
...believe I effectively dodged the question by saying that we did not raise the argument. I hope that’s what I did. I certainly don’t want to lose another vote if that’s a basis for siding in our favor.”Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing...
...didn’t buy the free speech argument one bit.” Still, some held out hope that FAIR would win—on statutory, not constitutional grounds—saying that though the free speech arguments appeared unsuccessful, the court could still decide the case in favor of the law schools. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in September, 40 HLS professors wrote that the Solomon Amendment requires schools to give recruiters only access that is “equal in quality and scope” to that of other recruiters access, and since...
...supporting U.S. President George W. Bush’s stance on American foriegn policy and the war in Iraq. “The problem here is, people are particularly focused on his pro-Bush position and his pro-war position, which the Canadian public in general is not [in favor of] and the Liberal party itself took a position against,” said Albo, who called Ignatieff “out of sync” with the Liberal party. Ignatieff has also faced harsh accusations of using disparaging ethnic slurs against Ukrainians in his published work...
...believe I effectively dodged the question by saying that we did not raise the argument. I hope that’s what I did. I certainly don’t want to lose another vote if that’s a basis for siding in our favor...