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Though the law forbids discrimination on the basis of race, religion and national origin, among other things, gender was the main issue. Women were the only group that most clubs would confess to barring. The ordinance had been challenged in court by the New York State Club Association, which claimed that it violated the right of free association. Not so, said Justice Byron White, writing for the court. "It may well be that a considerable amount of private or intimate association occurs in such a setting . . . but that fact alone does not afford the entity as a whole any constitutional...
That scenario could illuminate more than just the confusing differences in the velocity of pressure waves; it could also help explain the mystery of the origin of the earth's magnetic field, as well as its unexplained reversals. About once every million years, magnetic north and south inexplicably exchange places. Scientists do not understand whether this phenomenon comes about gradually, say, over thousands of years, or all at once. One idea, advanced in recent years, is that turbulent eddies within the core-mantle boundary somehow give rise to electromagnetic disturbances that trigger the reversals. A rain of iron particles...
...known Woody Bracey for 34 years," Danielssaid, "There is nothing in his soul that isracially motivated. I've never heard him refer toanyone in a rude or derogatory way [because] oftheir color of skin, religion or national origin...
This selfishness is couched in a desire for so-called normality. The paradox that Lessing uncovers is that the violence and brutality of society, embodied in Ben, has its origin in the deceptive calm of the bourgeoisie...
Bell also said he thought the principles articulated in the BLSA demands might resurface at later faculty meetings, though the faculty might not attribute their origin to the BLSA...