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...Lawrence H. Summers, then president of Harvard University, gave an infamous speech in which he implied that the reason few women seem to excel in mathematics is genetic. Perhaps he would cite as evidence the “indisputable” fact that girls play with dolls and not chemistry sets. After all, as we write, little girls are still playing with fresh new dolls from Santa and boys are blowing up their bedrooms and the family...
...professor Nancy Hopkins ’64 walked out of Summers’ speech in disgust, but, to Summers, that should not have come as a surprise—she was just being an emotional woman...
...This raised a question in the minds of the court's majority. If freedom of speech protects the right of rich individuals to use television to distribute their political views during election season, does the same right extend to rich groups - like businesses, labor unions, the NRA, the ACLU or Citizens United? (See the top 10 moments of the 2008 election...
...long history of court opinions shows that entirely reasonable Justices have disagreed about this question for many years. There is an obvious tension that open-minded people can easily recognize between freedom of speech and the danger of certain voices drowning everyone else out. On certain subjects, though, this court is not open-minded. Kennedy and his four conservative brethren saw only the principle that the Constitution is designed to limit government power. Faced with a Congress that had passed a law declaring who can say what about elected officials, and how and when, they squeezed the trigger...
...Association publishes a book urging the public to vote for the challenger because the incumbent U. S. Senator supports a handgun ban; and the American Civil Liberties Union creates a website telling the public to vote for a presidential candidate in light of that candidate's defense of free speech...