Word: upholding
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...Supreme Court’s five-to-four ruling on the intact dilation and extraction method of abortion on Wednesday was hardly unexpected, given its shifting ideological balance. Nevertheless, the decision to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked many unfortunate firsts for the new Roberts Court. At best, this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled yesterday to uphold the decision of a lower-court judge to grant a retrial in the high-profile case of Alexander Pring-Wilson, a former Harvard graduate student who was convicted in 2004 of fatally stabbing a Cambridge teenager...
...Such a view, however, is silly. Harvard is right to uphold pedagogical purity—forcing students to take accounting at MIT, for example. Yet students cannot live on Plato and Proust alone. If the hordes of economics concentrators are any sign, there is no lack of interest in the market. So, just as campus publications hone the skills of budding journalists, similarly should seed grants or non-interest loans from the administration nourish students’ brilliant ideas...
...thank BC for that,” she says. She would later go on to be a founding member of New York’s renowned Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) improv troupe.When she wasn’t performing with My Mother’s Flea Bag, Poehler managed to uphold the college’s fine Jesuit tradition: “I spent a lot of time off campus shuttling kegs to and fro, and that was another part of my college experience.”PIE IN THE SKYBesides making more movies, Poehler has many “bigger...
Agreements in the Middle East, whether they appear minor or are hailed as breakthroughs, inevitably enter a "prove it" phase, a time when parties must deliver on obligations, uphold promises, and work through thorny questions. That time is now for the Feb. 8 Mecca Agreement that dramatically announced a Palestinian unity government. In Jordan Wednesday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he believed Fatah and its rival organization Hamas could deliver. Some important positions in the new government are basically decided; Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will remain Prime Minister, for instance. But, Abbas conceded, "there is a lot of work...