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Adding fuel to the already raging speculative fire, Kennedy also joined Scalia and Thomas in a dissent against the majority opinion in another abortion-related decision Wednesday. By a 6-3 margin, the Justices upheld a Colorado law requiring abortion protesters to keep a specified distance from clinic patients and employees, concluding that the statute does not violate the First Amendment rights of the protesters. And while the Colorado decision was not nearly as close, Kennedy's position rattled many pro-choice advocates, who have come to count on him as a dependable if somewhat unenthusiastic defender of abortion rights...
Monday, by a wider margin than many had anticipated, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to prohibit the practice of student-led prayers before football games. The widely anticipated decision was a rebuke to the Santa Fe, Texas, school district, which had long maintained the rights of students to lead pre-game "invocations" (the contents of which were generally left up to the students). Before two local families filed a suit against the district in 1995, many schools allowed student-elected "chaplains" to lead prayers before the games; after the suit, however, the "invocations" were introduced...
...Parameters are set that will limit the number of students who can be assigned to each individual House based on continuing student population in that House and expected attrition. Gender ratio parameters for entering students are also included and typically centered around 1.1 men to one woman. A 0.15 margin of error is allowed...
...tournament and Olympic trials than a competition. In addition to Martin and Shevchik--whose times in the 400 individual medley and 200 backstroke qualified him--Harvard qualified ten others for the Olympic trials, including Waters, Im, Swinteck and tri-captain Brian Cadman. Harvard won the meet by a comfortable margin...
...Beating the defending Ivy champs head-to-head is not too shabby. Harvard took control of the dual meet against Brown early by winning the opening relay and never looking back, taking the meet by a huge 193-106 margin...