Word: landmarks
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...weeks ago, some classmates and I took a trip to the United States Supreme Court. The trip was much more than a field trip or a vacation; we had the opportunity to witness oral arguments for two landmark voting rights cases, Hayes v. Louisiana and Johnson v. Miller. Both involved the question of whether Southern states could create congressional districts with a majority of Black voters to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The Court's decision may dramatically change the substantial gains by Blacks in practically all of the Deep South states...
...landmark decision with broad implications for college athletic programs across the U.S., a federal judge ruled last Wednesday that Brown University had discriminated against female athletes when administrators withdrew funding for women's gymnastics and volleyball teams...
...monument, Time made no attempt to interview me. While it is true that none of the sculptures relating directly to F.D.R. depict him in his wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R. realized that a physical disability was often misperceived as a sign of weakness. Thus he recognized the need to veil his own disability to focus the public's view on his strengths as a leader, not his handicap. I oppose any attempt to alter, delay...
Strident anti-abortion warriorsOperation Rescueset up shop today in the same Dallas office building as the health clinic that employs the woman whose landmark 1973 court case legalized abortion in the U.S. Only an interior wall separates the neighbors. Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, told Reuters she is not exactly thrilled with her new neighbors, but the clinic has no intention of moving out: "We are here for the duration."Operation Rescue'snational director Flip Benham said: "It's a tremendous place. At the killing center, at the gates of Hell, is where the church...
...uncertain area of the law," says TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen, who notes that while the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the ADA covers victims of some diseases, it has not issued any decisions on whether the law applies to AIDS patients. "This is definitely a landmark case...