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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That argument is completely without merit and was bound to convince none of the Court’s nine justices....Claims that giving the state judiciary this sort of power violates some separation-of-powers norm binding on the states are entirely frivolous,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail. Tribe filed an amicus brief in January urging the SJC to support same-sex marriages...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum and Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Campus Reacts to Failure of Gay Marriage Appeal | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

...Indeed, it is important to bring to light the fact that charges essentially identical to those made at today’s rally have already been investigated and found to be without merit by the federal agency responsible for investigating workplace safety, OSHA,” Wrinn wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Labor Activists Rally For Terminated Worker | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

...University currently requires third- and fourth-year graduate students to serve as TFs in order to receive financial funding. To make assignments merit based, Gordon said the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) should be endowed independently of the FAS and that this should be the University’s highest priority in its upcoming fundraising drive, even above funding for the new campus to be built in Allston...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Push TF Reform | 11/30/2004 | See Source »

...franchise. You can still race around a track if you want, but where Burnout 3 (for PlayStation2 and Xbox; $49.88) really excels is in Crash Mode. Your task here is to speed kamikaze-like into a series of major intersections and create enough dollars' worth of auto carnage to merit a bronze, silver or gold medal. Time slows down at the moment of impact, and you can keep steering your careering car for maximum pileup potential. Sounds simple, but you will be surprised how often you get to the other side having caused little more than dented fenders. Never knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Video Games: Cool Games | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...class of 2004 in the city's three main high schools racked up a combined average score of 1165 on the SAT, 139 points higher than the national average. Eighty-five percent of their seniors go on to four-year colleges. And last year they had 44 National Merit finalists. But there are other numbers of which Fornero is less proud. The district's African-American students typically score 100 points lower than their white classmates on the SAT. The grade average for black kids is a C, a whole grade below the B for whites. And African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing The Gap | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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