Word: jure
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...Predictably, the Bush Administration agrees. In a friend of the court brief supporting the Kentucky petitioners, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement wrote, "The United States remains deeply committed to [the] objective [of Brown vs. Board of Education]. But once the effects of past de jure segregation have been remedied, the path forward does not involve new instances of de jure discrimination...
...Under Chen, cross-strait relations have been frozen. How would you improve ties with Beijing? We would not pursue de jure independence ... We would resume negotiations on the basis of the 1992 consensus [forged during talks in Hong Kong]?in short, "one China, different interpretations." We would facilitate economic exchanges leading eventually to a common market. We would facilitate cultural and educational exchanges, like letting mainland students attend universities in Taiwan, because we have a surplus capacity and they are very short of that ... If the two sides get together, the chance of war will be minimized...
...male or all-female singing group, half of the campus loses access to its own money. If the UC’s resources must only be used for benefit of the entire student body, it cannot fund groups that discriminate in any way, de facto or de jure. Consistency on this issue would preclude the funding not only of religious groups and single-sex choirs, but numerous other political, artistic, and even cultural groups as well. As far as I’m concerned, that is reason enough for the UC to change its policy. JORDAN C. BAEHR...
...their bylaws. Although de facto discrimination may be difficult to evaluate, explicit discrimination is not. The UC is reasonable to err on the side of generosity when giving funds to groups that may discriminate in some de facto manner, but it should certainly not fund when discrimination is de jure. Eliminating discriminatory clauses from bylaws will help to alleviate the alienation that may discourage students from attending the events in the first place.Even if students disagree with this logic of why discriminatory groups should not be funded, they should still not support the UC’s proposal to defer...
...safe to say that there has been more “date rape” these past several decades than ever before, as formal courtship has eroded, physical intimacy has become routine, oversexed environments (and even pathological male fantasies) are merrily facilitated, and drunkenness is de jure. The boundary of consent is blurred in these instances, as even the actors/teachers of the University-funded rape prevention theatre troupe Sex Signals admitted in its mandatory-attendance presentation to first-years last Fall.None of this mitigates the wrongness of the rapist and his crime. But even proffering the foregoing paragraphs...