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Unfortunately, the Courts may not see it that way. In 1996, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District decision gutting a statute that required the National Endowment for the Arts to respect "general standards of decency and respect" in its grant-awarding process. Implicit in such rulings is a reading of the First Amendment that goes something like this: whenever the state throws its weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support...
...retrospect, the call was devastating. It was Harvard's ninth penalty of the day and by far the most costly...
...remember I was talking to my literature teacher shortly after our ninth-grade finals were over when the teacher who taught some of the other classes for the same course barged into the room in a visible state of distress. She interrupted our conversation with loud cries to the effect that her students had learned nothing and that she might as well have been away windsurfing all year instead of lecturing...
That finish included a third-place team showing in the foil division, keyed by top-15 performances from sophomore Tammy Knutsen (ninth), plus freshmen Emily Katz (11th) and Ellen Schulz (15th...
...Cliff-Keen Invitational at Las Vegas in early December, Harvard placed ninth out of 43 teams...