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One source of judicial activism is the provision in Indian Law for "Public Interest Litigation" (PIL), which is not unlike class-action litigation in the U.S. Like the high court in other systems, India's Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of laws passed by the legislature. But it also...
An integral part of freshman year is swarming to upperclass houses, where enterprising students put Harvard ingenuity to work as they try to listen for loud, blaring party music. Some achieve their goal of getting blindingly drunk, willfully disregarding the ubiquitous signs behind the bar: “You must...
Harvard students learn as much from their extracurriculars as from their studies, or so they like to say. Fortunately, the College considers this a good thing, proudly citing statistics about the hundreds of student groups, dozens of theater productions and scores of varsity, club, and intramural sports teams. Recognizing this...
One of the abuses that the act specifically barred was any "threat to take action ... that is not intended to be taken," a provision that clearly covered an empty threat to sue. But in Brown's case, the district court said the word "could" meant that Brown hadn't received...
The President's staff didn't just bad-mouth the faith-based office behind closed doors. Their political indifference also kept us from getting the funding we needed so badly. No episode captured that more clearly than the 2001 negotiations over the President's $1.7 trillion tax cut. In those...