Word: legalism
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...this month, Boston granted Harvard approval for its 589,000-square-foot science complex, the first project to receive approval as a part of the University’s half-century expansion into the neighborhood. But before the University can break ground on its project, they must fulfil a legal commitment to provide the Allston neighborhood with a specified package of benefits. As Harvard moves closer to beginning construction, the task force has yet to prioritize neighborhood requests that they compiled last spring in a benefits matrix—requests that include art and music education programs for a local...
...states to rectify these inequalities. Speaking in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Ogletree—who is an advisor to the lawyers of the six black students controversially indicted in Jena, La. earlier this year—said that the Jena case highlights larger problems in the American legal and education systems. “Jena’s most important role is in lending drama and immediacy to a long-standing, worsening problem,” he told the committee, alleging differences in the way students are treated in schoolrooms and courthouses according to their race. Ogletree said...
...faux dodo into existence.Tradescent Sr. willed his collection to his son. By then the menagerie of oddities had grown so large that the son hired a curator and former attorney, Elias Ashmole. Historians have speculated Ashmole became envious of the collection and connived to inherit the estate through legal means, recording Tradescent Jr.’s will so he would receive the estate when his employer died. But Tradescent Jr.’s second wife, Hester Pookes, contested the validity of the will. What happened next is well documented. “On 4 April 1678 Hester Pookes...
...Portugal, which holds the rotating E.U. presidency, used a mix of sunny charm and unwavering commitment to end months of legal wrangling over the jargon-bound minutiae that often make the E.U. seem like a dense fog to many of its citizens...
Forging a new legal framework for the greatly expanded European Union has been a six-year saga with plenty of woe. It finally reached a provisional end on Friday in Lisbon, when leaders of the 27 member states agreed to sign a new document that replaces the "constitution" that French and Dutch voters roundly rejected...