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...underlying problem of second-class citizenship for Quad residents has not been dealt with. For as nice as Briggs may be (and some even question how nice it is), College promises to make life in the suburbs even nicer than city-dwelling--to counter the long morning and evening rush hour commutes--have not been fulfilled...
Advertising has always had second-class status among the forms of discourse covered by the First Amendment's freedom-of-speech guarantees. The Supreme Court, notes Columbia Law Professor Vincent Blasi, "has clearly said that commercial advertising is not protected to the same degree as political debate or artistic expression." Indeed, the court upheld without comment the 1971 ban on broadcast cigarette ads. Since then, however, the Justices have been sheltering commercial speech more aggressively. In 1980 the court struck down a New York rule that sought to conserve energy by banning utility ads promoting electricity use. Before the Government...
...bootstrap their families into the comforts of middle-class American life. But it also bespeaks a deeper ethic permeating many Asian societies. Says Yong-Il Yi, 55, a New York City real estate broker from Seoul: "In Asia, if you don't have a higher education, you are a second-class citizen...
...Maronites and Greek Orthodox; the Muslim one is made up of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Druze. In the chaotic redistribution of power now taking place, the most serious challenge has come from Lebanon's Shi'ites, who constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning an enhanced status, however, the Shi'ites have become a dangerously radicalized and fractious lot. The outcome of the internecine disputes within this branch of Islam could have a profound effect on the larger struggle for political control in Lebanon...
...Radcliffe students were really second-class," says Katherine Bolster Russell '60, a Unitarian minister in New Hampshire...