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...legal experts on opposing sides of the Solomon Amendment controversy converged at Harvard Law School (HLS) yesterday to debate the constitutionality of the 1994 statute.Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School, joined John C. Eastman, a professor at Chapman University School of Law for a debate in Pound Hall sponsored by the HLS Federalist Society.The Solomon Amendment gives the Secretary of Defense the authority to block federal funds to any university that “either prohibits, or in effect prevents” military recruitment on campus. Its constitutionality will be the subject of Rumsfeld v. Forum...
With eight receptions for 150 yards on the season, Breaux enters this week’s game at Cornell leading all Harvard wide receivers and averaging an eye-opening 18.8 yards per reception. At 6’3” and 190 pounds, Breaux’s size and athleticism make him well suited to challenge defenses down the field—and, with the 6’4”, 200-pound Mazza out for the foreseeable future, give the Crimson a long-ball option...
...Katrina's damage was multiplied a thousand times by the breach of the levees. This is a classic case of the penny-wise, pound-foolish policies of modern politicians and bureaucrats. The problem is not limited to the Bush Administration. Driven by concepts like cost cutting and lean government, shortsighted budget officials may save a few billion dollars, but they end up losing $50 billion when tragedies must be dealt with later on. Anil Kumar Aleti Hyderabad, India...
...flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
...Andrew said, offering Matt his fist. “28!” And they commenced with their customary pound. (Every time they entered a new state, Matt and Andrew consecrated the moment by touching fists.) A few minutes later, Matt plugged in the radio adapter they’d bought for their iPod and hit play. Slow piano filled with the car, and then Marc Cohen’s voice, and then the drums: “Put on my blue suede sho-oes, …touch down in the land of the De-elta blues?...