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...longer appears a question of if, but how the Vatican will try to restrict homosexuals from joining the priesthood. As 256 of the world's bishops gathered in Rome for a three-week synod--the first under Pope Benedict XVI--details filtered out to the Italian press that something a bit less draconian than a blanket ban was in the works. A long-shelved document providing specific admission instructions to seminaries is expected to be issued in November. The "instruction" from the Congregation for Catholic Education would add some teeth to a long-standing but often loosely enforced...
...night that Harvard will file a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the Supreme Court to invalidate the Solomon Amendment, the statute initially passed by Congress in 1994—and subsequently modified—that allows the secretary of defense to block federal funds to universities that restrict military recruiters’ access to students...
...said they would restrict entry to students at Tulane and Loyola Universities, while the College will process applications “on an expedited basis,” according to Kirby’s letter. SPH will accept displaced students from Tulane only...
...religion of Texas. So it shouldn't be a surprise that when it comes to temple construction, the Dallas Cowboys tend to get their way. Bucking a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain that curtailed private-property rights, the Texas legislature passed a bill in August that would restrict government seizures of private land (thus joining several states in a backlash against the ruling). But two exemptions made it into the bill, one involving the Cowboys' construction plans for a new $650 million stadium. About 50 property owners are refusing to sell their homes to the city of Arlington...
...probably best known for its bitterly split 5-4 decision in 2000 in Bush v. Gore, which many Democrats saw as sneaky conservative prestidigitation to give George W. Bush the White House. It was one of the few decisions in which Rehnquist supported the use of federal power to restrict a state, in this case Florida, whose supreme court had ordered a manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. The court ruled that because Florida counties had no consistent standard for such a recount, the votes statewide might not be treated equally if a recount proceeded...