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...protected category. The military had refused to sign the pledge, and as a result had been barred from campus. In 2002, the Pentagon—invoking a 1996 provision known as the Solomon Amendment—threatened to withhold several hundred million dollars worth of federal funding unless HLS granted military recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination policy. Harvard acquiesced and amended its code, this fall allowing military recruiters on campus for the first time in a quarter century despite the government’s explicitly discriminatory “Don’t ask, don?...
...Pentagon told Harvard that the University could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants unless military recruiters gained full access to OCS. The Law School granted the Pentagon an exemption from the nondiscrimination requirement...
...ruling is the most significant development to date in a 14-month-long legal battle over the Solomon Amendment, a 1996 statute which the Pentagon invoked two years ago when it threatened to cut all federal research funding to Harvard unless the Law School gave the armed services broader access to campus recruiting resources...
...theatrical lore, one should never utter the word “Macbeth” in a theater, unless it is during a performance of the play. Even during the production, it is referred to as “The Scottish Play,” and its lead characters as “M” and “Lady M.” If one should violate this rule, then either the specified blessing must be said immediately, or one has to leave the theater, turn around three times backward, and then knock on the theater door, and wait...
...district, has a history of cracking down on underage drinking and touts a “zero-tolerance” policy for area schools. But he said that tailgates would not be ruled out entirely. “No one’s going to sign onto this event unless a lot more regulations and restrictions are put in place,” Evans said. “I think we’re going to have to revisit the whole idea of such a large-scale event...