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...House passed a series of bills in February that would limit appeals in death-penalty cases and give prosecutors more leeway to use illegally obtained evidence; the Senate has yet to act on all of them...
...these predictions are correct, then the typical U.S. parish of the future may come to resemble a Protestant-style congregation, a virtual democracy directed and administered by members who also have considerable leeway in determining who will preach and conduct religious services. Those Catholics who now petition for a greater say in the running of their parishes may someday get even more than they asked for, if only by default...
...that each school faces three levels of scores, with a maximum of 10 allowed from the lower band and 15 from the middle one (though the specific formulas get more complex). The numbers corresponding to the bands differ with the school, so Penn and Cornell are given more leeway in recruiting than Harvard or Yale...
...Congress--who are trying to kill the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as public broadcasting. He attacks the subject with a polemical fire unusual even for Hughes. "Once in a while, on some issues, we give him a little more leeway, as long as it's clear that what you're getting is Bob Hughes' opinion," says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield, Hughes' editor since 1980. "I'm comfortable with this," he says, "because one of the secrets I've learned about Bob is that he's really a much more...
...sharply divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled thatfederal affirmative action programsmust adhere to the same strict standards as the states when offering help to minorities. The decision reverses a 1980 ruling that had allowed Congress greater leeway than the states in creating such programs. The case involved Randy Pech, a white Colorado contractor, who charged that a federal program offering government contractors financial incentives to use minority-owned firms as subcontractors unfairly discriminated against his business. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the government must show that racial preference programs "serve a compelling government...