Word: morrison
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Luckily an answer to that question is imminent, as it is anticipated that the Court will soon announce its most crucial federalism decision to date in U.S. v. Morrison. At stake: civil rights for women, under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA...
...second argument, 41 states officially registered their support for VAWA when arguments were heard for U.S. v. Morrison in January, with 21 of them placing individually-researched gender bias studies on the record. Much of this testimony was to the point that the civil rights remedy provided by VAWA would be helpful and to state that since victims are allowed to pursue the case through the criminal state courts concurrently with any federal civil case, there was no real sovereignty issue...
...earlier this season, Jackson handed out some reading. He gave several of the players books by mystery novelist Walter Mosley. He gave Harper Toni Morrison's Jazz. And he gave O'Neal a copy of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo (How One Becomes What One Is). "It is all my art and aim," Nietzsche writes, "to compose into one and bring together what is fragment and riddle and dreadful chance." Maybe that's what Jackson does: he brings together disparate players--fragments and riddles--and makes them one. Then, again, we are talking basketball here, and maybe all Jackson is trying...
...soundtrack release featuring music from the hit television series "The Sopranos" is like a friend's mix tape. Similar to those perfect-for-driving staples, the album is a hodgepodge of tracks assembled for their self-conscious hipness or relevance to the show. Where else would you find Van Morrison buddying up to Los Lobos or Bo Diddley rubbing elbows with Bruce Springsteen? In the quirky gangster world created by producer David Chase, baby...