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...Supreme Court refused to hear the case, leaving the lower court's ruling in place as the law of the land in the district. But if it had upheld the ruling, even Harvard's delicate system of subtle preferences would have become illegal...
...Republicans and Democrats were able to set aside traditional politics and pass a tax-reform bill based on the basic principles of fairness, simplicity and efficiency. It appealed to Republicans because it lowered rates, and to Democrats because it eliminated loopholes. Tax reform, in defiance of the odds, upheld the public interest against the special interests...
...things that demean the long-term value of what we've got." One of these cases went all the way to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in an oft-cited landmark 1991 case involving a British retailer named Elvisly Yours--yes, they were selling edible Elvis panties--upheld the Tennessee...
...enterprise of desegregation coming to nothing as whites move to suburbs that the courts have put beyond the reach of busing orders. Only a third of black students now go to majority-white schools--a higher degree of segregation than existed 26 years ago, when the Supreme Court first upheld mandatory busing. In these circumstances, the N.A.A.C.P.'s. insistence on school integration appears antiquated to many young blacks--a situation that an organization with a median age approaching 50 can ill afford...
...ever since. The defense says that additional cleaning of the rifle and a new test will clarify the situation in favor of Ray. But the prosecution says they are just grasping at straws. If Judge Brown rules against him, it probably means that Ray, whose guilty plea has been upheld eight times by state and federal courts, has seen the end of his last hope for a new trial...