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...legal definition should be reserved to state legislators, but now that the issue is one of constitutionality, it should be decided in the courts. Because of the controversial nature of excluding same-sex marriage, states legislators may face difficult political pressures. Just as the protests to prohibiting inter-racial marriages and the marital rights of women were first influenced by the courts, in the case of same-sex couples, the courts are once again interpreting our marriage codes...
...material for the cities of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, pays its employees only about $6.75 an hour, does not compensate overtime work and does not provide adequate or affordable health insurance. Numerous employees have raised complaints about the company’s health and safety violations, as well as racial and sexual harassment by supervisors. For example, workers have testified that they are exposed to glass particles and not are not provided with protective clothing. The wages and conditions at KTI violate the laws applied to city contractors by Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. But so far, KTI has successfully strong...
...many people were doing so and it got on the presidential nerves.) Mostly, though, he's cloistered behind the high walls of his Harare compound. From there, Mugabe - once a hero, a man of the people - fights. The media may make it seem as if the battle today were racial, as if the President were lashing out primarily at the rich, land-owning whites left over from the bad old days. It's not. While the atmosphere in Zimbabwe is akin to what you might have found in apartheid-era South Africa - another place where music, from impoverished townships like...
...amicus curiae brief filed before the Supreme Court this week, Harvard has once again taken up the cause of affirmative action and racial diversity. Nearly 25 years ago, Harvard played an important role in defining and defending affirmative action in the much-heralded University of California Board of Regents v. Bakke case. In the amicus curiae brief that it filed for that case, Harvard explained how its affirmative action plan worked, and how it could be justified to a country heavily invested in questions of equality and racial justice. In Bakke, Harvard’s “plus factor?...
Despite the shift in public debate, the Supreme Court must establish a clear and fair precedent in this case, and define the ways in which affirmative action may operate and the ends that it must pursue. Racial justice must survive, and the court must affirm the value of diversity in our classrooms and in our society at large by upholding the principles set forth in Bakke...