Word: lawness
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...that patriotism is called the last refuge of scoundrels. The obscure word, which looks like a refugee from a crossword puzzle, means seizure, and that is what happened last week. President Bush directed all federal agencies to meet the budget-deficit- reduction targets specified by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law by imposing $16.1 billion in across-the-board spending cuts. Worthy domestic-spending programs such as subsidized housing were cut the same 5.3% as pork-barrel projects like the Agricultural Extension Service. Under sequestration, the Defense Department faces a 4.3% chop, with important items like military readiness facing the same...
...generation has seen too many victories incourt fade away to believe in the magic ghost ofcase law," said Strickland. "You can't survive asan Indian people even if you have all the caselaw...
...challenged young Native American lawyers toremake that law. In the past, the Wisconsinprofessor said, "creativity and originality,combined with well-based historical research haveprovided ammunition to change law...
AILSA, which is sponsoring the symposium withits national organization and the American IndianBar Association, participated in ralliesprotesting the dearth of minority professors atthe Law School last spring. Last year the schooloffered its first course on Native American Law, ashift probably influenced by AILSA efforts, saidthird-year student Loretta A. Miraglia. The classwill be repeated next term, she said...
After the officer placed his hat over the photographer's lens, the Crimson editor asked if he was familiar with the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, a law which bars anyone from intimidating people in an effort to keep them from exercising their rights under the Constitution or other laws...