Word: voided
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...Alabama had erred in using Lawrence to strike down the state's prohibition on the sale of sex toys. Only in Massachusetts, with its famous gay marriage decision handed down four months after Lawrence, has a top appeals court sided with plaintiffs seeking to use the decision to void state laws regarding sex or marriage...
...years ago, scientists didn’t come to Radcliffe. This void was not due to a lack of confidence regarding women’s aptitude in science—indeed, men and women alike were eligible to be among the annual 50 fellows—but rather that science did not have a prominent place in the institution...
...With the graduation of Maki and Du, who will fill the void? Meintel and junior Mike Taylor displayed their talent down the stretch, notching three game-winning goals between them. Freshman Doug Rogers also showed signs of promise, scoring seven goals in his rookie campaign...
...stacked onto one cot, from the child dying of malaria to the village without clean water, conditions in Africa are an affront to every value we Europeans have ever seen fit to put on paper. We see in Somalia and Sudan what happens if more militant forces fill the void and stir dissent within what is, for the most part, a pro-Western and moderate Muslim population. (Nearly half of Africa's people are devotees of Islam.) So whether as a moral or strategic imperative, it's folly to let this fire rage...
Harvard appears ready to step into that void. The Crimson not only has talented players at all positions but stands to benefit greatly from the new division alignment. It gets four games against Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth, three of the weaker teams in the league, while avoiding powerhouses Princeton and Cornell. That combination should earn Harvard a berth in the inaugural Ivy Championship, where, presumably, anything can happen...