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...voting 6 to 3 to throw out a Texas law prohibiting private homosexual conduct. The Texas case arose in 1998 when a neighbor with a grudge called the Houston police to investigate what he claimed was a disturbance next door; the cops arrived to find John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner in bed together and arrested them under Texas' antisodomy laws. The men were each fined $200 and spent the night in jail. Once the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, hopes rose among gay activists that maybe some of the Justices were ready to reconsider...
...constitutional law at Yale University. That consensus walks a socially sensible but legally clumsy line between tolerance and outright acceptance. Scalia noted that many Americans might not be comfortable with an openly gay business partner, scoutmaster, schoolteacher or boarder. True enough, but most people would also say that what Tyron Garner and John G. Lawrence did in the privacy of their Texas bedroom is none of our business. The court's affirmative-action decision was just as pragmatic. Most Americans disapprove of specific, codified racial preferences, like the now famous 20 points granted minority applicants to the University of Michigan...
...constitutional law at Yale University. That consensus walks a socially sensible but legally clumsy line between tolerance and outright acceptance. Scalia noted that many Americans might not be comfortable with an openly gay business partner, scoutmaster, schoolteacher or boarder. True enough, but most people would also say that what Tyron Garner and John G. Lawrence did in the privacy of their Texas bedroom is none of our business. The court's affirmative-action decision was just as pragmatic. Most Americans disapprove of specific, codified racial preferences, like the now famous 20 points granted minority applicants to the University of Michigan...
...felt the least wanted by Harvard," says Tyron J. Sheppard '97, a Los Angeles resident who was accepted to 10 elite colleges. "Even when I wrote saying that I wasn't going to accept admission, [other schools] wrote back hand-written notes wishing me good luck at Harvard. When I accepted Harvard's offer, they only sent me a postcard...
Cornell struggled to get the ball past midcourt, and with three seconds left, reserve guard Ron Tyron launched a desperate 20-footer that missed everything. Crimson center Monroe Trout, a hefty 6-ft., 9-in., 225-pounder, grabbed the rebound under the Cornell basket with his back to the court. Tick...tick... buzzer; lucky Harvard win after a sloppy performance, right...