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...forced desegregation of Little Rock, at the outset of the Class of 1958’s senior year, stemmed from the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision four years earlier, which declared that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
...George's predecessor Justice Roger Traynor authored an equally groundbreaking - and divisive - opinion tossing out California's ban on interracial marriage. Nearly two decades later, the Supreme Court followed suit, citing the landmark California case. But it was a bumpy road. When the high court issued its famous Loving v. Virginia decision, there were still some 16 states with laws on the books forbidding whites and blacks from marrying...
...think it’s so critical that students that are interested have the opportunity to be exposed to all sorts of things,” Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 said this weekend. For incoming Rubenstein Fellows such as Justin V. Reed, the fund is meant to alleviate some of the financial burdens entailed by the Joint Degree program’s extra year of schooling. “It’s a great opportunity to take a couple of chances and follow a career path you might be less motivated...
...point in the state, 44% to 43%. The Obama camp, in fact, feels his positions compare favorably to McCain's on issues Floridians will care about most in November. Those include abortion (Obama is pro-choice while McCain has pledged to seat Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade); privatizing Social Security, which McCain supports but which Obama, like most of Florida's massive retiree bloc, opposes; and a federal catastrophe insurance fund, which McCain opposes in the form that passed the House of Representatives this year but which Obama, like so many hurricane-battered Floridians, backs...
...Keenan herself is a somewhat unusual figure in the broader women's and abortion rights community. A Catholic from Montana, she delivered an unorthodox speech on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade earlier this year. Talking openly about her experience as a pro-choice Catholic, Keenan also called on her pro-choice compatriots to recognize their own missteps in confronting the abortion issue. "As positions on both sides of this debate have hardened the past three decades, they have also grown more distant from the lives of everyday people," she told the audience [italics hers]. "The slogans and bumper...