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...ordinary circumstances, courts are extremely reluctant to overturn a disciplinary decision from a University," said Roderick MacLeish Jr, a Boston lawyer who has advised 12 College students on cases before the administrative board...
...case of Coveney v. President and Trustees of the College of Holy Cross, the court declared that it would not overturn school decisions "if school officials act in good faith and on reasonable grounds...
...plan. But I feel like I packed more into a year that many of my classmates did, just because I figured out my path as I went along. I survived, and this fall I'm blustering right back in through the gates and looking for new rocks to overturn...
When he began public life, though, Milk was a preposterous figure--an "avowed homosexual," in the embarrassed language of the time, who was running for office. In the 1970s, many psychiatrists still called homosexuality a mental illness. In one entirely routine case, the Supreme Court refused in 1978 to overturn the prison sentence of a man convicted solely of having sex with another consenting man. A year before, it had let stand the firing of a stellar Tacoma, Wash., teacher who made the mistake of telling the truth when his principal asked if he was homosexual. No real national...
...passive, TV-watching mode. And call me a traditionalist, but I think e-mail belongs on a PC in the office, not on the big screen in the living room. By law I still can't get local programming on the satellite dish, although Congress is expected to overturn that ban, possibly at the end of June. What I will never get via satellite is my neighbor's vibra-chair...