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...site itself. Even the founder of JuicyCampus.com will concede that “it hasn’t all been fun and games.” And in a perfect world, the privilege of free speech would be tempered by the discipline of individual virtue. There would be a standard of decorum to which Internet users held themselves. But until the gossip geeks out there put an end the charade, there should be stricter legislation on Web gossip...
...Buzicky described herself as a “typical ROTC cadet” during college, spending time training and taking specialized classes on top of her standard Princeton course load. But instead of immediately entering the military after her graduation in 2002, Buzicky took an “education delay”—to study first at Oxford with a Rhodes Scholarship and then at the Law School...
...with great practical significance," says Dennis Henigan, vice president for law and policy at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He notes that while the majority of justices "expressed skepticism" about D.C.'s gun laws, "there certainly did not appear to be a majority for establishing a constitutional standard that would call into question the validity of gun control laws across the board." The district's gun ban is certainly under fire. Whether it will suffer a fatal blow or a flesh wound remains to be seen...
...There are a sprinkling of major holidays (Western Christmas is one) that fall each year on the same day of the Gregorian calendar, a fairly standard non-religious system and the one Americans are most familiar with...
Good Friday, meanwhile, like many of the other most important Christian holidays, is a set number of days before Easter. The only problem is that the date of Easter is probably the most complicated celebratory calculation this side of Hinduism, which has a number of competing religious calendars. The standard rule is "the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox." But in fact, the actual divination of the date is so involved that it has its own offical name: "computus." And so challenging that Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of history's greatest...