Word: overturning
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...would take an extreme backlash to cause the presidents to care enough to bury the hatchet and overturn the ban, because if there’s one thing we’ve learned about these eight administrators when it comes to athletics, it’s that they’ll almost never admit that they’re wrong...
...more stringently than that. However, Massachusetts law simply prohibits unlicensed individuals from transporting more than 20 gallons of beer (slightly more than one keg). Harvard’s keg ban goes above and beyond what the law requires. We wonder if Dean Gross’ reluctance to overturn the ban in full is simply due to a misplaced deference to his predecessor...
...other election news, the council’s Election Commission unanimously ruled last night to accept the appeal of J. Sawallah Guseh ’06 to overturn their previous disqualification of his candidacy. Guseh will again serve as one of the representatives from Currier House after demonstrating that he made a full faith effort to comply with the election commission’s previous ruling...
...back." UPHELD. The conviction of ANWAR IBRAHIM, 57, ex-Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; on charges of corruption; in Putrajaya. He was freed from prison three weeks ago after a reversal of his sodomy conviction, and has since vowed to push for democratic reform. But his failure to overturn the corruption conviction means he is barred from political office until 2008. ARRESTED. MACAULAY CULKIN, 24, actor and former child star famed for his role in Home Alone; for possession of marijuana and unauthorized prescription drugs; in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was freed after posting a $4,000 bond. CONVICTED. JONATHAN...
...facing new challenges. If the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington does not overturn a lower-court ruling that RIM violated patents held by a rival, the company could be barred from selling in the U.S. And Lazaridis has to worry that his licensees might kill his hardware business--although, even if they do, RIM still has a healthy software and services business, which brings in close to one-third of its revenues. BlackBerry's success has made Lazaridis wealthy enough to donate more than $100 million to his other passion--quantum computing research--at the University of Waterloo, where...