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Robert B. Sorsher '83, head of the Harvard reason for relocating the Medical Area personnel office was not to overturn the 1977 ruling...
Cantor said this week that the University's reason for relocating the Medical Area personnel office was not to overturn the 1977 ruling...
...short, by the end of Victor/ Victoria, Writer-Director Blake Edwards ("10," The Pink Panther series) has managed to overturn virtually all his characters' sexual roles and the audience's expectations as well. He has also made, in the midst of much well-timed farce, a fairly serious point: namely that sexual identities have precious little to do with the qualities, moral and otherwise, that make people good, attractive or fun to be with...
...three of these issues, if passed into legislation, are likely to provoke a direct confrontation with the courts. First, many of the bills attempt to circumvent or overturn rulings of the Supreme Court, such as its opinion, delivered in 1973, that laws flatly prohibiting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy were unconstitutional. The courts are likely to reaffirm their past decisions on the disputed issues. Second, the New Right is launching what legal scholars see as a more insidious constitutional challenge to judicial authority. The bills on busing, abortion and school prayer all seek to limit the authority...
...ominous series of Administration actions. Reagan has urged Congress to amend some of the key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which helped enfranchise millions of blacks and elect thousands of black officials. The Justice Department has said that it would like to find a way to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing companies to set up voluntary affirmative action quotas for minorities and that it will not pursue busing as a method of desegregating schools...