Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Higher education will also endure the first case to seriously challenge the Supreme Court's 1978 ruling in the University of California v. Bakke, the legal foundation for college affirmative action programs...
...Agency for International Development (USAID) sent a letter to HIID director Jeffrey Sachs ordering the institute to "take immediate and reasonable steps to close out all ongoing activities" by Aug. 1 on its two main projects in Russia, which included technical assistance for legal reform and development of capital markets...
...fact that many college students, like Wynne, are under the legal drinking age is rarely an obstacle. Many drink at private parties off campus, with an older student buying the alcohol. Bars' enforcement of the drinking age can be lax, false IDs are common, and legal-age friends are often willing to buy the drinks and bring them back to the table. In fact, raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, a movement that swept all 50 states over the past two decades, may actually have made the binging problem worse. Instead of drinking in well-monitored settings...
...fact, some experts say that rather than driving students into the outside world by banning alcohol, colleges should encourage at least those who are of legal drinking age to drink responsibly on campus. L.S.U. had a schoolwide no-alcohol policy in effect the night Wynne died. But neither that policy nor the fact he was underage stopped him from finding a private party and an off-campus bar to serve him enough alcohol to end his life. As recently as five years ago, L.S.U. permitted fraternities to hold open-air beer blasts under the watchful eyes of campus police...
Divorce is legal in the U.S., and as long as it is, people should not be punished for it. On the other hand, my boyfriend's ex-wife promised to kill herself and never did. Do you think I can sue her for breach of promise? LEE COVINGTON Seattle...