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With "swing" Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy lobbing skeptical questions at Colorado's solicitor general, who was defending the state's anti-gay-rights measure, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could yield the most important discrimination decision of the new term. At issue is whether Colorado voters violated U.S. Equal Protection guarantees when they approved a ban on laws or policies forbidding discrimination against homosexuals...
...Program will include a 20-minute video presentation, a brief oral presentation by Harvard officers and a question and answer session. At the end of the first hour, the program will be repeated...
...struggles for that fifth vote. As chief guidance officer of the liberal wing, William Brennan had a famous dictum: "Five votes can do anything around here.'' Year after year, he bundled together 5-to-4 liberal majorities. In January a frail-looking Brennan sat on the sidelines to hear oral arguments in Adarand, this term's affirmative-action case. When a 5-to-4 ruling came down, another conservative victory, it was hard not to wonder whether his words had come back to haunt...
...words that worked were sometimes quite revealing. Straightforward oral sex, for example, generally got a lukewarm response. But when Thomas described the same images using words like choke or choking, consumer demand doubled...
...white lab coat might have delighted Salk's peers in medical research. Instead many of them resented him as a man who reaped the glory for work that had been pioneered by less celebrated scientists all around the world. By 1962 Dr. Albert Sabin's oral vaccine, derived from live viruses, had become the preferred method of inoculation in the U.S., and Sabin was bitter about Salk's earlier triumph. Just a few years before his own death in 1993 Sabin claimed that "Salk didn't discover anything." Salk himself was often uncomfortable with the fuss made over...