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...lower federal court upheld all portions of the law except the spousal- notification provision. But in the process it declared that abortion is no longer a fundamental right that requires courts to apply "strict scrutiny" to any restrictions that states might apply. If the Supreme Court endorses that view, it would send a signal to legislatures that even steeper obstacles to abortion might be acceptable so long as they can be justified by the easier standard of a "legislative rationale." Says Kathryn Kolbert, an A.C.L.U. lawyer who will argue the case before the court: "If states are given a green...
...addition, the anti-gay policy has been upheld by recent court decisions. In December, a judge upheld the department's longstanding policy but also mentioned the spread of the AIDS virus as a possible threat...
...Wednesday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) upheld its earlier ruling that denied Llopis eligibility to play basketball at Harvard...
HARVARD IS NOT SHY about extolling the virtues of a diverse community. The Harvard admissions brochure calls diversity "the hallmark of the Harvard experience." In fact, Harvard is often upheld as a model of diversity, a living example of racial, ethnic and cultural relations gone right...
...auction market may be faring poorly this season, but over the years an insatiable demand for artworks and antiquities has kept the price trajectory rising well above the rate of inflation. What used to be upheld as things of beauty or objects of veneration are increasingly traded like zero- coupon bonds or pork-belly futures. According to U.S. government estimates, "art theft is a $2 billion-a-year business," says Constance Lowenthal, executive director of the nonprofit New York-based International Foundation for Art Research. "But it could be much larger." Trace, a three-year-old British magazine that tracks...