Word: journals
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...most notable changes involves free speech. In a 1971 Indiana Law Journal article, Bork argued that "constitutional protection should be accorded only to speech that is explicitly political." He also challenged as "fundamentally wrong" the court's 1969 decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which held that speech advocating violence can be restricted only when it is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action...
...recent weeks the gay population at Yale has been put in the spotlight, as The Wall Street Journal published an article in August stating that the university is gaining a reputation as a gay school. Almost everyone on the New Haven campus, including administrators and gay and straight students, disagrees, saying The Journal's figure of one in four students being gay is more than double the accurate count...
Following are some excerpts from Julie V. Iovine's controversial Wall Street Journal article, entitled. " `Lipsticks' and Lords: Yale's New Look" The piece ran August 4, 1987 in the Journal's Leisure and Arts section...
...people around the country, the Bork confirmation struggle is nothing less than a fight for the soul of American society. Evangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson speak of a Bork appointment as a kind of salvation for a morally misguided Supreme Court. Exulted Human Events, a right-wing journal: "The President . . . could advance his entire social agenda -- from tougher criminal penalties, to curbing abortion-on- demand, to sustaining religious values in the schools, etc. -- far beyond his term in office...
Representatives from 35 countries met in Montreal last week to hammer out an agreement that would limit man-made damage to the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. As they deliberated, the British journal Nature published a study offering the strongest evidence so far that man-made compounds called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the culprits. Crofton Farmer, principal author of the study and an atmospheric physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported that data gathered last year in the Antarctic are "entirely consistent" with the premise that CFCs -- used in refrigeration devices and as ingredients in plastic foams...