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...This is really Lenny's term," Duchay told his fellow councilors Tuesday night. "I pledge to uphold the dignity and the spirit with which he presided over this city...
...attempt to reintroduce prayer is "quite different from merely protecting every student's right to engage in voluntary prayer during an appropriate moment of silence." In a dizzying array of dissents and concurrences, the fractured court indicated that at least five Justices -- and perhaps all nine -- are willing to uphold moments of silence if legislatures and teachers do not explicitly encourage students to use the time to pray...
...shown contempt for its own traditions of free speech and movement by failing to take proper measures to enforce these rights. Instead it has, in an act of institutional weakness, resurrected an almost universally-hated tribunal which makes a mockery of the very rights the University has pledged to uphold. It has put students' fates in the hands of a body with no responsibility, no due process, and no legitimacy...
Harvard must have a method of preserving the rights of free speech, the lifeblood of a university community. The University affirmed these rights in the 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsbilities, the document which the CRR was formed to enforce, which pledges that the University will uphold freedom of speech and movement, and freedom from harassment...
From nowhere -- well, Yugoslavia, actually -- came one of the few entries to uphold the standard of defiantly indigenous "little" films, Emir Kusturica's Papa's Away on a Business Trip. A brutal, poignant, exuberant story of a family rent by political and sexual chicanery, Papa boasts nary a Hurt nor a Kinski among its actors, and earned every frond of Cannes's grand prize, the Palme...