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...quite pro-Western of late. Indeed, straying from its historical central planning, China has built up ties with American businessmen, joined the World Trade Organization, allowed private enterprise—and an entrepreneurial class—to flourish and liberalized trade around Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. The Chinese state??s latest overture of good will—the forthcoming visit of Premier Wen Jiabao—arrives in Massachusetts next week...
Last month, the people of California flexed their electoral muscle and got rid of one of the Golden State??s least-popular politicians, the aptly-named Gray Davis. But at Harvard, we’re basically stuck with our elected incompetents. Representatives on the Undergraduate Council are protected by prohibitively excessive recall rules that do nothing to increase accountability...
Last month, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that banning same-sex marriage violated the state??s constitution. The four-to-three decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health affirmed the humanity of gays and lesbians by holding that same-sex couples are entitled to all “protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage.” Recognizing the dignity and equality of all individuals, the Court rewrote the common law definition of marriage as “the voluntary union of two persons as spouses, to the exclusion of all others...
With the help of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Davey sued the state for violation of the Free Exercise clause of the Federal Constitution, and although the District Court found in the State??s favor, the 9th Circuit Court reversed the decision 2-1 on appeal. The state has now appealed to the Supreme Court...
However, in the state??s brief to the court, Solicitor General Narda Pierce denies that Davey’s rights have been infringed...