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...this nightmarish scenario suggests, we are relieved that the Supreme Court in fact ruled in favor of Washington state last Thursday, denying that the state should have to fund theology majors at religious colleges. The Court has avoided the slippery slope for now. Thankfully, the seven justices in the majority maintained religious choice for all students...
...they don’t want to invest in their liberal arts education; rather, it’s that many tend to think Harvard’s $19 billion endowment should do more to subsidize the cost of student tickets. But, of course, that’s a slippery slope. Start by funding the arts, and you might soon find students demanding to do away with the extremely reasonable fees for ordering transcripts from the registrar. Two-dollar copies, anyone...
Homosexual rights in America are climbing up a very slippery slope. The US Supreme Court’s decision ruling against sodomy laws and, more recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage have been two major steps in the direction of equality of sexuality. These rulings have sparked the anger of the conservative right against both the Supreme Court and the Massachusetts rulings...
Park City is an old mining town 27 miles east of Salt Lake City that resurrected its soul through skiing. Two of its three resorts were host to Olympic events. Stein Eriksen Lodge (800-453-1302), located on Deer Valley's slopes, and Hotel Park City (435-940-5000) offer some of the town's most luxurious digs. After skiing, guests at Stein's place (the former Norwegian Olympian still mingles) can visit the day spa or soak in private hot tubs. The woodwork of the year-old Hotel Park City is reminiscent of that found in the old national...
Sulzberger added that the board should avoid “setting a precedent for revisiting its judgments over many decades.” Yet the slippery-slope argument is not very compelling here. Consider that in December 2002, Columbia University rescinded Michael Bellesiles’s Bancroft Prize after it was discovered that his award-winning book, Arming America, relied on fabricated sources. Were the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty’s prize, it would not threaten past Pulitzer winners any more than the rescinding of Bellesiles’s award threatened previous Bancroft winners...