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...agreement required Hillel and Harvard Real Estate (HRE) to apply for a special permit to allow them to reduce the amount of allowable space for parking, said Scott Levitan, HRE's associate vice president for construction and planning...
Levitan said the construction will continue even if the permit is not granted in a hearing tentatively scheduled for April 6, because the compromise only required HRE to attempt to apply for a permit...
...Phillips Brooks House), refused space to the Boy Scouts, despite their admirable public service record, because they do not allow gay members or scoutmasters. Even had the Connecticut branch of the Boy Scouts wanted to change its policy due to these local pressures, the national headquarters would not permit it. (This is the same dilemma that the ROTC branches face when boycotted by universities...
...case of New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, the good of the community was disregarded in a more subtle manner. By taking a permit away from the Ancient Order of Hibernians and granting it to a group that would allow a gay organization to march under a progay banner, the city government established the dangerous precedent that the government can selectively withhold the right to use public space based on the opinions of the user...
...only the second time since it was enacted in 1988, a federal statute has been invoked to permit capital punishment for violent drug traffickers. In this case, the sentencing came against a trio of brutal Richmond, Virginia, cocaine dealers who murdered 11 people over a two-month period while running a lucrative crack gang called the New York Boyz. In one instance the gang burst into the house of a woman who owed them a few hundred dollars and shot her dead...