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That still leaves the concerns of more secular voters. Weisberg observes that modern political discourse seems to permit the exploration of candidates' every secret except their most basic philosophical beliefs: "The crucial distinction is between someone's background and heritage, which they don't choose, and their views, which they do choose and which are central to the question of whether someone has the capacity to serve in the highest office in the country." He would raise the same concerns, he notes, about a Jew or a Methodist who believed the earth is less than 6,000 years old. Weisberg...
Harvard contracts with a broad range of vendors for goods and services that permit the work of the University–education and research–to go forward. As a general matter, the University has neither the right nor the expertise to dictate the means by which our vendors organize their business. The situation of service employees working on our campus, however, raises a distinctive set of issues that was carefully considered by a committee of eleven faculty members, four students, three union representatives, and two administrators in 2001. The committee’s review resulted...
...fact, in January 2006 the Virginia General Assembly rejected a bill that would have allowed students with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns on campus. The bill was pushed by the Virginia Citizens Defense League after a Virginia Tech student with a concealed weapons permit was disciplined in 2005 for bringing a gun on campus. The bill, opposed by Virginia police chiefs and the university itself, never made it out of committee. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe...
...Make no mistake, abortion opponents won big in this case, Gonzales v. Carhart. It's the first time that the court has blessed a federal ban on an abortion method, and a serious blow to the longstanding rule that abortion restrictions must permit the procedure when necessary to preserve a woman's health. The slim majority here - five conservative justices led by Anthony Kennedy - skirted that rule by saying medical experts can't agree whether a woman would ever need this method to stay healthy (the law does contain an exception if the woman's life is at stake...
...pulled the right strings and procured him a business visa. Then, all Big Lin had to do was invest $10,000 in a Prague business venture. It's not clear who pocketed that money, but less than six months later, Big Lin says he received a Czech residence permit. The Czech document enabled him to get a tourist visa to England, which he overstayed. Six years ago, Big Lin cut his final link to home by "losing" his passport. Many other Chinese do the same to ward off deportation - it's hard to send someone home if their nationality...