Word: upholding
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Numerous organizations on campus, both to the right and to the left, were founded with the express intent of endorsing and promoting specific political convictions. PBHA ought to uphold its laudable and unique tradition of disinterested service. Bear in mind, for example, that the failure of OXFAM to gain broad appeal is due to the fact that a large portion of the public believes it to be politically biased. If PBHA is seriously interested in raising money for its many worthy progrms, it must immediately discontinue its active role in all governmental politics. Adam W. Smith '90 Naomi H. Wittes...
Perhaps to signal right-to-life groups that the Administration is not backing away from them, the Justice Department last week filed a brief in one of the three abortion cases facing the Supreme Court this term. It calls for the court to uphold a Minnesota law that would require a teenage girl to obtain the permission of both parents before having an abortion -- even if they have never lived together...
Television bears a heavy burden. Unlike movies or books or plays, TV shows are expected to do more than just provide entertainment. They are asked to be socially responsible as well. Because they come into the home uninvited, network programs are supposed to uphold proper moral values and teach life lessons: drugs are bad, race discrimination is wrong, women should get breast exams early and often. Sometimes the second task tends to overwhelm the first: that is, a show is so busy doing good that no one bothers to notice whether it is good. The new season's prime example...
...Colombia, where 157 judges were victims of drug-related murders between 1982 and 1988, it is a brave justice who stands up to the cartels. But last week, in a surprising move, the country's Supreme Court voted to uphold most of President Virgilio Barco Varga's emergency measures against narcotics traffickers. Most important, the court approved the President's power to extradite criminals...
...court was willing to uphold that so itwould probably be willing to uphold [the Bingamanamendment]," said Sullivan, a constitutional lawexpert