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...House and Senate Republican leaders have their way, Saturday's gathering at Pie-Tanza, a strip-mall pizza joint in Arlington, Va., will be remembered as the beginning of the rebirth of the Grand Old Party. In addition to pizza, the venue, selected by the freshly born, center-leaning National Council for a New America (NCNA), served up symbolism: suburban areas like this one, on the outskirts of Washington, were GOP bastions not so long ago, and they'll need to come back to the fold for a Republican resurgence. Pie-Tanza was also small enough to make the crowd...
...trial of a coerced confession was a "harmless error" that shouldn't automatically result in the overturning of a guilty verdict on appeal. But the next year he outraged anti-abortion forces in a pivotal case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Souter joined with Kennedy and O'Connor in a joint opinion that upheld the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade. Though in the same decision the three justices approved most provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, a law that put limits on abortion rights, they had ensured the survival for years to come of the basic right to choose...
...that Shanno was epileptic, a claim her father denies. So far no action has been taken against the teacher. But her death has renewed calls to stop corporal punishment in schools; the issue is explosive because in India physical abuse in schools is widespread. According to a 2007 joint study by UNICEF, Save the Children and the Indian government, 65% of school-going children have faced corporal punishment. Ayub Khan, Shanno's father, a waiter without a regular job, says in an interview with TIME that he is determined "to get justice for his daughter." (See pictures of India...
...Erhlich, captain of Harvard’s football team, a blogger for Go Crimson, and an aspirant novelist with a secondary in philosophy, was also the winner of b. good’s Cousin Oliver contest. He, in other words, is entitled to free burgers from the Dunster Street joint for the rest of his life.Four years ago, when Ehrlich was a freshman, b. good offered a lifetime supply of burgers to whoever best demonstrated that he or she would make the ideal “cousin” to the newest patty place in the Square. Ehrlich...
...answer unsurprising to anyone familiar with his musical endeavors. During his time at the College, Kapusta has been integral to many musical organizations; his activities have ranged from playing the trumpet in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra to sitting on the board of the Dunster House Opera. A joint Music and Literature concentrator, Kapusta is also one of the few Harvard students participating in Harvard’s joint degree program with the New England Conservatory, which involves a full course of study at Harvard and an additional year at the NEC to complete a Masters degree. It was the freedom...