Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Race-based admissions policies at universities from California to Texas currently face legal and public challenges. Gender-restrictive policies may very well be the next under fire...
However, according to Cohen, this in itselfinvites a legal interpretation which could bepotentially damning. Teaching both male and femaleundergraduates gives the Bunting an educationalcomponent and at the same time removes itsprotection under the Title IX exemption forall-women undergraduate college programs...
...year-old pledge, downloaded the dance jams for free over the Internet. Zotaley estimates he has 1,300 songs on his computer, everything from classics by Van Morrison to the latest by the Beastie Boys. And he has never paid for a single song. "I don't know how legal that is," he says with a shrug, but free songs sure are "a good investment." His rap, techno and swing titles go directly from a laptop to the house's deejay booth. These digital music files have replaced compact discs entirely when it's time for the fraternity house...
...Born, K-God or simply K. All identities in the story have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent, which should include Century. Much of his "inside" information is hearsay. And his practice of using aliases in nonfiction is no less dubious because it is commonplace and a legal safeguard. But Century wants to have his fact and fiction at the same time. It can be tricky. If readers overlook an early cryptic footnote, they will be unaware of the name alterations until they reach a disclosure at the end of the book. Moreover, it turns out that even...
...into the muck. And amazingly, Democrats are buying into the Big Creep's definition of victory: three-quarters of the country believe he is untrustworthy and lacking ethical standards, and they're popping corks. Party leaders are united in defense of this man--their guiding principles of moral and legal relativity have been elevated to an art form (one standard for liberal Presidents, another for everyone else). The politics of personal destruction that they invented (with attacks on Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, et al.) has, on Clinton's behalf, been perfected by pornographers and private eyes...