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Harvard's comments on the proposed Title IX regulations show that it is still unwilling to take bigger steps on its own. Until it can prove that it is, legislation will be necessary to force Harvard to abandon its position as a landmark in the history of discrimination against women...
...really writing about, like the liberals rejecting Armstrong. One minute the reporter in her is comparing statistics with an executive, the next she's talking to a human victim and the numbers don't matter anymore. Statistics--as the bureaucrats so aptly demonstrate in this book--can prove anything. And besides, we have statistics: Heilbroner on the food shortage, Ehrlich on population, Commoner on ecology. With so many books to read, with figures dwarfing anything Scott's talking about (anything imaginable), it's chaos to lose the bond of shared experience for too long. When the New York Times...
...There is going to be a coalition of people down there in the Senate now doing things a different way. Some of us will have gotten in there tenuously, and we will have to prove ourselves by making some changes. I know I will...
...Evidence. The federal statute involved is a tricky one. Although shooting someone deprives him of his rights to life and liberty, it is necessary to prove not only the consequence of the illegal act but the purposeful intent to commit it in violation of constitutional prohibitions-a tougher standard of guilt than that required in a murder trial. Prosecutors were able to show that the Guardsmen had used "excessive and unjustified" force, but, said Battisti, who acted before the defense had begun its case, "the Government has presented no evidence bearing directly on the intentions of [the] defendants who fired...
According to Mark 16: 18, Jesus promised that believers would be able to "pick up serpents" or "drink any deadly thing" without harm. Taking that promise literally, some members of Pentecostal sects in Southern Appalachia prove their faith by handling venomous snakes and drinking poisons...