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...feminists for all they have done and dishonor their hard work by not continuing it. Perhaps very privileged students don’t quite have the realization of the real world outside of college, but surviving in today’s society is marked by a constant struggle to uphold and ensure one’s rights. Women are lucky that their mothers and even grandmothers loved their daughters enough to cause the social unrest that produced the benefits that many women enjoy today. But perhaps these same daughters, the women of today, fail to realize that to keep...
...guilty, it marked the first phase in the trial of one of Africa's most wanted men. "The people of Sierra Leone have been waiting patiently for three years to see the accused finally face the trial chamber," said prosecutor Desmond de Silva. "Many voices have come together to uphold the rule of law and justice. The voice of the people of Sierra Leone was the loudest and I commend them for their courage, conviction and persistence." But for all the applause, Taylor's first day in a Freetown court may also be his last...
...thirds of House Democrats yesterday joined the unanimous Republican caucus in supporting the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Solomon Amendment. The court handed down its unanimous opinion last Monday. The Solomon Amendment, a federal law enacted in 1994 and revised several times in the past twelve years, compels universities to allow military recruiters on their campuses or risk forgoing federal funds. For the last two years, universities have challenged the amendment on both constitutional and statutory grounds, and Harvard has lobbied against its most recent revision. But the most recent ruling dismissed the legal challenges...
...Monday, the Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold the Solomon Amendment, a 1994 Congressional law that threatens to withhold all federal funding for colleges and universities that refuse to offer military recruiters––who are prohibited from enlisting openly gay men and women––equal access to campus recruiting resources. This decision, while legally sound, is nonetheless a great disappointment, as it will force Harvard Law School (HLS) to acquiesce to an employer’s willful violation of the school’s nondiscrimination policy or forgo over $400 million...
...through shareholder resolutions.While he objected to “sweeping prohibitions” on investments, Bok suggested in one open letter to the Harvard community that divestment could be justified in extreme circumstances where the investments “work in significant ways to further improper ends or to uphold unethical principles.”Bok wrote that universities “may refuse to invest in firms that depend heavily on conditions or practices of an immoral nature.”Last April, Bok’s views were cited by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...