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...Legislative Council looks likely to reject the bill too. It has no hope of securing the required two-thirds majority unless one of the following two things happens: either six of the 25 pro-democracy lawmakers are successfully arm-twisted to switch their stand, thus ensuring at least 40 votes for approval, or Beijing gives in to the demands of the people of Hong Kong and accelerates the roadmap to democracy. Neither will occur. Tsang has warned that, should the package be voted down, constitutional development "would come to a halt." Pass the proposals, he argues, and Hong Kong will...
...campus.The Harvard professors’ friend-of-the-court brief presented a statutory argument that the military already had “equal access” to students because all recruiters were faced with the same nondiscrimination pledge.But FAIR’s lead attorney, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, appeared to reject that argument under questioning from Justice Stephen G. Breyer yesterday.Breyer asked, “Do you agree with the government that the statute as fairly interpreted is violated when schools issue rules uniformly applied to all employers that you can’t come in if you have the discrimination...
...implications of dating someone from a different faith.Khalid adds that, when it comes to marriage, an interfaith relationship is not a problem as long as the person is a Christian or a Jew, according to Islamic theology.Yet more than theological issues, students say that personal feelings influence them to reject the possibility of an interfaith relationship. “It would be impossible for me to consider spending my life with someone who did not agree with what I spiritually believed in,” says Sarah H. Arshad ’09, who is Muslim. Sara A. Manning...
...FAIR’s lead attorney, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, appeared to reject that argument under questioning from Justice Stephen G. Breyer yesterday...
Surgery is, however, just the beginning of the woman's medical odyssey. She must take powerful drugs for the rest of her life to ensure that her immune system does not reject the graft. Of all the tissues in the body, the skin provokes a particularly strong rejection response, which makes sense when you consider that one of its functions is to act as a barrier against germs. The weakened immune system that results from the drugs also increases the risk of cancer...