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...commerce clause has been well used for the last half-century as a tool to combat discrimination. However, no matter how tenuous the connection, the discrimination Congress countered usually involved an economic activity, such as running a hotel or amusement park that denied access on the basis of race. The Court has wisely resisted expansion of the clause into wholly non-commercial activity, such as violence. Murders and thefts could have the same economic effects as gender-related violence; indeed, just about any activity--marriage, child-rearing, education--when viewed in the aggregate has a substantial effect on the economy...
Plagued by a penchant for inconsistency, the race for the ECAC title is wide open. Harvard maintains a tenuous hold on first place, with Yale and Princeton nipping at its heels. The conference's only nationally ranked team, No. 9 Rensselaer (RPI), is in a three-way tie for fifth place, while perennial league champion Clarkson is at the bottom of the pack and still looking for its first ECAC victory...
...Einstein's way of seeing time and space, but it really sprung from an atmosphere of change, in which Einstein was yoked with Freud, Marx, Picasso, Bergson, Wittgenstein, Joyce, Kafka, Duchamp, Kandinsky and anyone else with original and disruptive ideas and an aggressive sense of the new. By that tenuous connection did the discoverer of relativity become a major figure of a world consisting of individuals interpreting the world individually. He was similarly associated with the pluralism of modern music and the eclecticism of modern architecture...
...established a tenuous link between his themes of low youth voter turnout and campaign finance reform as he referred to the 1996 presidential campaign...
...thanks to the holiday rush, a young man fresh from the ranks of the unemployed has a new--albeit tenuous--start in a new job, and a middle-aged government employee has weekend fun and some extra money...