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...though it is rooted there. Instead, what sets this decision apart is the frank way in which it raises the issue of religious objections to gay marriage. As the Supreme Court did in Lawrence v. Texas, its seminal 2003 ruling striking down sodomy laws, the Iowa court says that mere moral opprobrium or deeply held values are not enough to warrant legal sanctions or the denial of legal rights. The court then subtly raises the issue of religious opposition to gay marriage, even though the legal briefs by the other side...
...Amnesty's report, "France: Police Above the Law," cites hard-to-obtain official statistics on abuse investigations culled from a variety of legal sources and studies. Those figures indicate charges of brutality are rarely substantiated or punished. It says that of 639 inquiries of police mistreatment in 2006, a mere eight cases resulted in the accused being dismissed from the force. In 2005 - when Amnesty first sounded the alarm about the problem - 16 out of 663 investigations led to the ouster of accused cops. By contrast, there's been an explosion in cases and convictions of "outrage," an offense based...
Daydreaming about Harvard in high school, you may have imagined wood-panel rooms lined with dozens of Gutenberg Bibles and the busts of ancient Greek philosophers—a haven where students would absorb knowledge from the mere scent of the ancient books surrounding them. Uhhhh...maybe not. Maybe you just smoked pot or played the sousaphone. But anyway, you'll grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense...
Lowell may be smaller than most House libraries, with a mere three modestly sized tables. But it is still one of the most elegant River House libraries on campus. A wood panel engraving of the Lowell shield—the hand seizing the arrows, encapsulating the motto occasionem cognosce (seize the moment)—gazes on studious Lowellians. The selection of literature on the bottom floor celebrates a special focus on obscure English literature that no one reads anymore (a defect present in many other River House libraries, including Winthrop...
...When word finally spread from the Senior Class Committee that the elected speaker would be Matt Lauer, some laughed and some cried. His name sounded vaguely familiar to us, so we keyed up Wikipedia and YouTube to recall the accomplishments of this luminary, whoever he was. This was a mere halt though; after a thorough review of his credentials—and glowing testaments of his charm from local Cambridge housewives—the current anchor of the Today Show appears to be the perfect pick...