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...back to the Goliath thing. The Sunday before the tournament begins, all the contenders are ranked from 1 (the awesomest of the awesome) to 16 (the meekest of the meek) in each of four regional groups. Then 16 plays 1 and 15 battles 2 and so forth in a three-week single-elimination march to the championship. No sporting event is as elegantly constructed or as essentially American. There are the massing of schools rich and poor, public and private; the opportunity for all to face off neutrally; and the assignment of an indisputable qualitative value. That last element...
...feel that the court did not take into account the motives of affirmative action. It’s a limitation on progress.” Several nationally prominent groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, brought forth the lawsuit. U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson dismissed the suit, thus temporarily delaying the fight over the constitutionality of the ban. By Any Means Necessary, another group that opposed the 2006 decision, announced yesterday that they would appeal the Court’s decision. On the group’s Web site...
...served on the committee from 2000 to 2007. “It’s nearly April. A fourth of the year has gone by.” The length and nature of Thomas Fowler-Finn’s contract has been at the center of back-and-forth negotiations after he narrowly won a contract extension by a 4-3 school committee vote in January. The committee continued these negotiations in a private executive session after last night’s regular meeting. After the meeting, recently elected Mayor E. Denise Simmons—the swing vote in favor...
...conservative wing seemed to think so. They favored a broader interpretation that included individual rights. "The two clauses go together beautifully: Since we need a militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," said Justice Antonin Scalia. In a spirited back-and-forth with the district's lawyer, former solicitor general Walter Dellinger, Chief Justice John Roberts scoffed at the D.C. ban's sweeping restrictions. "What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?" he asked. Justice Samuel Alito joined his colleagues, pointing out that the ban's provision - that legal rifles...
After almost an entire period of scoreless back-and-forth hockey, it appeared that the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team was in store for another postseason nail-biter in its matchup with Dartmouth Saturday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center.But with the final seconds of the first period of the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament ticking down, Crimson junior Jenny Brine scored a goal that gave Harvard a 1-0 lead and opened the floodgates for the Crimson offense. Harvard defeated the Big Green, 5-1, in front of 1,497 fans to advance...