Word: orall
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Well, have I got validation for you. Several of the country's most powerful lawyers, in briefs and in oral argument before the Supreme Court last week, trotted out those stereotypes and more in a last-ditch attempt to save the 157-year-old, state-supported Virginia Military Institute as an all-male preserve. According to VMI's argument, women respond more naturally to an "ethic of care" than to an egalitarian "ethic of justice," and those few women who are confident need to go to a women's school to be "reminded" that female "leadership" carries "the hazard...
...During oral argument, Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bender grabbed the rapt attention of the Justices when he harked back to a certain law school that refused to admit women, claiming they would run in tears from the lecture hall, unable to cope with the harsh Socratic method, the legal version of hazing. Five of the Justices recognized the school as their alma mater, Harvard Law School. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first women to get there, seemed to hold back a smile. VMI and the Citadel might want to start building those women's bathrooms...
...moot court exercise, titled "The Appeal That Never Was," is an educational exercise intended to train lawyers in oral litigation techniques, according to Edward D. Rapacki, the chief of the criminal bureau of the state Attorney General's office...
Following the lawyers' arguments, a panel of judges will critique the moot oral arguments in order to present the audience with proper evaluation, Rapacki said...
...educators" have won the battle. Their case for sex as the true American pastime is now encoded into the textbooks and state education requirements. So why stop there? Let's instruct kids that all types of sex are cool--oral sex with colored condoms, anal sex in the morning, bestiality with stray dogs; gerbils for your rectal pleasure. Education is the answer to sexual incompetence the children: sex, sex, sex (with a condom, please). Let's get a head start...