Word: validators
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...Congress, according to the Supreme Court. Justices on a 6-3 vote struck down the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration that limits the authority of the federal government over religious practices. That law was pushed through Congress in response to a controversial 1990 Court decision that laws can be valid even if they infringe on some people's religious beliefs. Opponents of the law charged that it allowed groups to hide illicit activity under the cover of religious belief. Supporters countered that some protection was necessary to prevent the rights of religious minorities from being trampled. Today, the court ruled that...
...alternative views and criticize multinational corporations. The presiding judge didn't buy the argument, stating flatly that some of the duo's claims were pure whoppers. But the Golden Arches didn't get off unscathed either. After grilling the critics, the judge declared some of their complaints were clearly valid. The final take for McDonald's? 57,500 pounds, or about $94,000 in damages...
...Vietnam was largely conducted on the same precepts that informed Gen Ed, that West is best," Fox says. "In the wake of that period, people weren't so sure that Western culture, WASP culture was particularly useful, valid or respectable...
...program of study is just as valid, just as rigorous as any other," he adds...
...aren't true, and most of the things that are true aren't new." Part of that effort entailed assigning black reporters to write stories implying that blacks believe the worst about government actions because they're paranoid. Obviously, the popularity of conspiracy theories in black America is a valid subject for journalistic inquiry; obviously, blacks have no monopoly on wacky ideas. (Remember those militia groups fantasizing about black helicopters?) But to many blacks, pushing the paranoia angle looked like a plot to write off their suspicions as delusions...