Word: ruth
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...problem, says Justice John Paul Stevens, joined by Justices David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in dissent, is that the Roberts opinion not only provides support for such a restriction, it invents "out of whole cloth a special First Amendment rule permitting the censorship of any student speech that mentions drugs." Stevens is fine with a rule that prohibits students from promoting illegal drugs. But no matter what the principal argued in this case, the bong-hits banner conveyed "nonsense," speech "that was never meant to persuade anyone to do anything...
MANY KNEW HER AS the elegant wife and ministry partner of preacher Billy Graham, but Ruth Graham originally planned never to marry --the better to be able to follow in her father's footsteps as a missionary in Asia. At Wheaton College in Illinois, she fell in love with Graham. As her Southern Baptist husband's most trusted adviser, Ruth charmed world leaders and celebrities, grounded Billy when politics tempted him (once kicking him under the table after Lyndon Johnson asked his advice on a running mate), remained a steadfast Presbyterian despite pressure from Billy's powerful friends and wrote...
...American Civil War veteran named Eli Lilly founded a pharmaceutical company. He did pretty well for himself: you can thank Eli Lilly & Co. for, among other things, methadone, Cialis and Prozac. But Lilly's reclusive great-granddaughter Ruth is apparently more interested in poems than in Prozac. In 2001, when she decided to give away part of her fortune in charitable donations, she singled out a venerable but impoverished little literary magazine called Poetry. Her gift came to around $200 million...
...journal, titled New Society, was released last week under the sponsorship of Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse. According to Associate Editor Gabriel M. Scheinmann ’08, it aims to provide the campus with a student-run outlet for dialogue regarding a Middle Eastern region defined as stretching “as far west as Morocco and as far east as Afghanistan...
...prominently in its celebrity driven advertising campaigns. Were he to end up in another make, such as Toyota - which entered the Nextel Cup Series this season but has been embarrassed by poor performance and cheating scandals from the start - or arch-nemesis Ford, it would be comparable to Babe Ruth leaving Boston for New York...