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...text of the Solomon Amendment requires schools to give recruiters access to students “at least equal in quality and scope to the access...that is provided to any other employer.” Since all employers must comply with the nondiscrimination requirement, Harvard and other law schools can hold the military to this pledge without violating the Solomon Amendment, according to the professors’ brief...
...head in a race sometime,” he said. “We’re obviously almost exactly the same speed. Maybe the Boston marathon?” Although Warren has brought publicity to joggling, long-term jogglers doubt that joggling will catch on beyond its current scope of interest. “Joggling will always appeal just to a fringe group,” said William R. Giduz, joggling director for the International Jugglers’ Association, an group founded in 1947. “It’s been around since...
...Jean-Claude Trichet confirmed to the European Parliament that the bank is planning to raise interest rates in the near future to combat what it sees as growing inflationary pressures. The first hike could come as early as this week. Trichet insisted that rate rises will be limited in scope and that the bank won't follow the lead of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has ratcheted up rates 12 times since June 2004. Trichet's comments calmed financial markets, but they didn't satisfy Continental politicians who accused the bank of jeopardizing Europe's nascent recovery. "I regard this...
...books and essays than could be understood without reading them, something is still missing. The only problem—a nitpick, perhaps—is that the biography might not quite motivate modern audiences to read Rousseau’s own works. Damrosch is very good at communicating the scope of Rousseau’s influence on later thinkers and entire fields of inquiry, but this is not quite the same. Isaac Newton’s “Principia” was also ground-breaking and influential, but so far as I know is not required reading among mathematicians...
...should “engage” foreign precedents instead of “converging” toward them. “The history of the eighth amendment is marked by courts looking to the outside,” Jackson said. She also said that in deciding the scope of the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment, the Court has often looked to the rest of the world. In its first Eighth Amendment case, Jackson said, the Court looked to the legal systems in Britain and India for guidance. Jackson read a passage from an article that Posner...