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...rule of law also has defects less obvious to us. Suppose the law is bad, then the rule of law is the rule of bad law. Think of the law requiring Rosa Parks to sit in the back of the bus. And a good law, meaning good in normal circumstances, may not be good in an emergency, when the country is at war or under attack. It may not even be good in a special case in ordinary times; this defect requires what used to be called equity and is now called “empathy.” Moreover...
...issue of having an antiquated and exclusive club that would not accept women was certainly a controversial issue,” said Victor G. Freeman ’88 a former member of the Undergraduate Council. One that he said “was not going to sit well” in light of the merger...
...Bruce L. Paisner ’64, who covered the ongoing negotiation over the Bennet Street Yards for The Crimson.Taxed land in Cambridge also brings along a lot of revenue for the city. The possibility of losing even more land to the tax-exempt University didn’t sit well with some Cambridge and Massachussetts government officials. The MTA did not pay taxes on the land, but there were some bidders who would.In 1959, in addition to Harvard’s offer, a group of Philadelphia insurance companies told the Cambridge City Council that they, in conjunction with Cambridge...
...Abbas has to do is sit quietly while Netanyahu takes the heat from Washington - and from his own fractious coalition partners. The Cabinet right wingers want Netanyahu to stand firm against Obama's demands to halt the settlements, while Labor, in the words of Knesset member Ophir Pines, wants Netanyahu to face his "moment of truth." Says Pines: "The government needs to decide whether it prefers good relations with the American Administration or whether it prefers the illegal settlement in the territories. All of the talk about natural growth in the settlements is a bluff, and the Americans know that...
...take a semester off for healing, but the all-star did not waste the time, working tirelessly to hit the ground running this past winter. Caputo credited work with the Crimson’s assistant coaches for getting him up to speed after the grappler was forced to sit for the summer.“I felt like I was working with a different body, a little less mobility,” Caputo said. “But this coach whipped me into shape. [When I competed again], it felt like it had been a while, but everything seemed...