Word: rule
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Restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself. In 1883, a New York District Court upheld a telephone company's rule prohibiting the use of "improper or vulgar" language on its lines. Apparently, a Mr. Pugh had used the word "damn" in a phone conversation, and his service was discontinued. Pugh challenged the company in court but the judge ruled against him: "The telephone," wrote the judge, "reaches into many family circles. It must be remembered that it is possible, from the peculiar arrangement of the instrument, to have a communication that...
When we get to talking about Harvard's refusal to recognize the sorority, Rebecca grows intense. While in theory, she's sympathetic to the College's non-discrimination rule--the policy that prevents it from recognizing single-sex clubs--she's frustrated by what the rule achieves in practice. "The Final Clubs aren't going anywhere, they already have huge networks of people and money," she laments. "As the system exists now, the only thing [the rule] does is make it harder for women to have the same experience...
Muskie had a reputation as the hardest Senator on Capitol Hill to work for. He had an expansive intellect and a volcanic temper, which, Albright says, "he admitted to me he used as a device." His style with aides was prosecutorial. He would warn them in advance: "My rule is I want to know everything everybody else knows about this--and more." To work for him amounted to training with Jesuits, dissecting one's faith and then reassembling it. At dinner he'd even challenge an aide about his or her wine selection...
...goodness of American power. I don't just mean military force. I mean the role the U.S. can have in the world when properly used." Her own task, she says, is also Marshallian: to bring as many states as she can into the developed world's system of rule by law, of international agreements and of peaceful behavior...
...This would be really unfair to Paula Jones. She should have her day in court, just like anyone else. Does the fact that the accused is the President of the U.S. set him above justice? I think the Supreme Court should treat this case like any other and rule that the trial should take place as soon as possible. LYNETTE LOH, age 16 Singapore...