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...Noni is inspirational, wonderful, and talented, but most importantly she has her head on her shoulders,” says her friend Rachel V. Byrd...
...would think it would take a miracle for the two opposing attorneys of Bush v. Gore (2000) to find common legal ground on anything. But Perry v. Schwarzenegger, an ongoing trial in California that finished hearing witness testimony late last month, has united Ted Olson, an “icon” of the conservative legal movement, and David Boies, his former “liberal adversary,” on perhaps the only ideology they share. Both lawyers believe that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, and both are willing to take their...
News outlets have noted a high probability that Perry v. Schwarzenegger will eventually become a “landmark” civil rights decision on par with Brown v. Board (1954) and Roe v. Wade (1973), consistent with Boies’s and Olson’s ultimate vision. “We acted together,” Boies commented in The Wall Street Journal, to emphasize that this is “not a liberal or conservative issue, but an issue of enforcing our Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.” Indeed, as Olson echoed...
That case, titled Loving v. Virginia (1967), is one of the primary decisions cited by Olson and Boies as precedent. Loving, a white male citizen of Virginia, married a black fellow Virginian out-of-state and was charged, along with his wife, with violation of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924. The couple challenged the constitutionality of this law under the Fourteenth Amendment, and on appeal, the Supreme Court of Virginia upheld it because the state has a personal stake in preserving the “racial integrity” of its citizens. In addition, since...
...subplot between Desi Speakenglish (Matthew I. Bohrer ’10) and his robot Betty Boopbeepboopboop (Daniel V. Kroop ’10) lacks the humor and energy of the main storyline. Set in a stereotypical 1950s restaurant, “Desi’s Diner,” the scene that introduces these two characters drags down the momentum of the show’s opening with uninteresting choreography, weak vocal performances, and consistently unfunny references to computer applications and the Internet that seem out of place. The character of Desi Speakenglish, while mildly amusing, is neither well developed...