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...justices’ move is the latest development in the bitter courtroom battle over the Solomon Amendment, a law initially passed by Congress in 1995 that requires schools to give military recruiters access to students as a condition for receiving federal funding. A Philadelphia-based Third Circuit panel ruled in November that the statute violated schools’ First Amendment rights...
...time, Harvard took no legal action against the Pentagon, but a coalition of 31 law schools and faculty groups—calling themselves the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)—filed a suit against six Bush administration cabinet officials, charging that the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional...
...Supreme Court’s move further delays the implementation of the appellate panel’s ruling. In January, the Third Circuit, siding with a Justice Department motion, agreed that its decision to overturn the Solomon Amendment would not go into effect until after the justices weighed in on the issue. Thus HLS—which reinstated its rule limiting campus military recruitment in the aftermath of the Third Circuit ruling—technically stands in violation of the Solomon Amendment, which currently remains on the books...
...occupied it was suspended for alcohol violations. Christian students share rooms with one or two other like-minded students, eat their meals in a communal dining room and get together for one-on-one spiritual mentoring and small-group Bible study. One women's group is studying Song of Solomon; an all-male group is looking at biblical role models like Abraham, King David and Jesus' disciples...
...Italy, they called it Arte Povera, elsewhere "junk art": turning refuse - burlap sacks, globs of tar - into popular works. For artists like Alberto Burri, who began producing Arte Povera in the '50s, such trash would eventually become treasure. Museums and galleries such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York City and the Pompidou Center in Paris vied for his works for decades. In 1989, a collector shelled out $2.8 million for one of his prized Sacco (Sack) paintings called Umbria Vera. At the time of his death in 1995, Burri's most famous pieces, including the Sacks and Plastics...