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Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux, who has been a vocal critic of Harvard’s tenure process since he was told in January that the Linguistics department did not wish to tenure a professor in his area, says that faculty must weigh Harvard’s draws against its “insane bureaucratic system...
Weight does not weigh heavily on the minds of many Americans, according to a new study by the Kennedy School of Government...
...bitterly divided federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 5 to 4 in favor of the school's race-conscious admissions policy. Lawyers for Barbara Grutter, a white woman whose Michigan application was rejected, are already working on her appeal. "It's time for the Supreme Court to weigh in and explain better what the law is in this area," says Terence Pell, CEO of the Center for Individual Rights, which is funding Grutter's legal battle...
Repealing a constitutional amendment is not an action to be taken lightly; America is obviously a nation that prides itself on the rights and freedoms of individuals. But the time has come for the U.S. to weigh the right to bear arms against the right to be free from gun violence in schools, workplaces and city streets. Over 13,000 people were killed by guns in 1998, not including suicides, which would more than double that number. While a right to bear arms may have made sense in early America, it is hardly necessary now. Americans are protected internationally...
...that testimony by Thomas could have left him vulnerable to damaging cross-examination by the defense, who might have portrayed him as the possible killer and raise doubt about the supposed guilt of Michael. Thomas's lawyer, Emmanuel Margolis was even concerned about self-incrimination. "I was beginning to weigh the possibility of pleading the Fifth Amendment" for his client, the last person to see Moxley alive...