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[Mark Pocan] is also backing [Sheila Stubbs], a "strong neighborhood activist" whose mother, Linda Hoskins, heads the local NAACP branch. "I think she won't be potentially as divisive as [Don Eggert] has been," he says, declining to give examples of how Eggert has divided the board. "It's a million little things," says Pocan of Eggert. "He's a nice guy, but if you have a district like that, you need someone who will be a real fighter. They have a lot of extra needs. In 2004, [Chris Lato] acknowledges, Magnum "struggled" with his race: "He'll admit that his campaign was not organized, not running as well as it could. One of the problems with 2004 is that he got in too late," waiting until May to announce his intention to run. "People were generally aware of him last time," says Lato, "b...
... to the point where we meet not only the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law." (For the c...
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Obviously, I'm pleased," [Craig] said. Craig said he had no contact with [Phil Harmon] during the campaign, except when they had been in court during an earlier hearing. "Our belief was from the beginning that we had followed the appropriate process, to both the letter of the law and the spirit of the law," said Craig. "I'm certainly delighted that Mr. Harmon has dropped the proceedings, and I'm encouraged about the fact that he believes enough in me that he's considering his vote for me. For me, that means that I offer the kind of agenda for the city that helps to move our city forward in a way that supports all of our citizens. "Certainly it's gratifying, but we have much work to do," Craig said. "I'm excited about the opportunity to represent all of our residents in the city of Col...
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A case involving a former school janitor in Wetzel County puts a few new twists on the issue of "sexting," or sending explicit photos by cell phone. Police have said the practice has become disturbingly common among students, particularly at the high school level. Usually, it's carried out between students, and some have gotten into serious trouble for sending the images.
..."It's the classic clash between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law," Rogers said...
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Obviously, I'm pleased," [Craig] said. Craig said he had no contact with [Phil Harmon] during the campaign, except when they had been in court during an earlier hearing. "Our belief was from the beginning that we had followed the appropriate process, to both the letter of the law and the spirit of the law," said Craig. Tm certainly delighted that Mr. Harmon has dropped the proceedings, and I'm encouraged about the fact that he believes enough in me that he's considering his vote for me. For me, that means that I offer the kind of agenda for the city that helps to move our city forward in a way that supports all of our citizens. "Certainly it's gratifying, but we have much work to do," Craig said. "I'm excited about the opportunity to represent all of our residents in the city of Colum...
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To comply with a Quranic ban on interest, financiers throughout the Muslim world have developed a wide range of legal arrangements, such as murabaha and ijara, that repackage interest as profits-on-trade. These and other interest-avoiding transactions also appear in a variety of contexts in the West, including tax planning, usury avoidance, and corporate accounting. This Article illustrates how a legal tradition's fundamental attitudes toward law affect its interest-avoiding transactions. This Article argues that, in contrast with other legal normative orders, Islamic law has developed a conspicuously tolerant attitude toward interest-avoiding transactions due to (a) its formalist approach to legal interpretation, and (b) its understanding of law as ordering rather than actualizing.
... have very different legal and spiritual consequences. In Alex's case, the 5 percent premiu... the law's provisions, and privileges the letter of the law over its spirit when the two come into ...
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It's official: the state and county Democratic Party will sue if Republicans certify write-in candidate Ellis Ivory as their official candidate for Salt Lake County mayor. That is unless Nancy Workman's doctor signs a "certificate of disability" drafted by the Democrats themselves. We believe that the letter of the law and the spirit of the law should be followed," state Democratic Party chairman Donald Dunn said. State law requires that a candidate who withdraws be "physically or mentally disabled" before the party can name a replacement.
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Many people seem to be Democrat or Republican blindly. We ditto a stand or slogan, without examining the inconsistencies of our choice. We ask rhetorical questions and attack false extremes, and fail to ask hard and real questions to get real answers.As a Christian who lives in a redeemed, but still sinful, world, I question the Christian conscience, but not the sincerity, of my fellow Christians; I fear that our inconsistencies mirror the hypocrisies Jesus condemned in the Pharisees. I suspect many a Pharisee was sincere.Why does the self-styled religious right attack activist judges but support a judge because they hope he will overturn Roe v. Wade? It would seem more consistent for us to hope for an activist judge to overturn a bad law. Similarly, why do so many conservatives want a ...
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When the media knowingly republish defamation of public figures, the media are subject to possible libel actions by the defamed parties to the same extent as the original defamingparties, even when the defamatory statements are themselves newsworthy in context. This is the dilemma created by the Supreme Court's decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, in which the Court went to great lengths to protect the media 's ability to report the news-even news that is false-so long as the republication is not done with a reckless disregard for the truth. What, then, should be done about information that is known to be false but is nonetheless necessary to inform public discourse? This Note suggests allowing republication based on the newsworthiness of the defamatory statements, i.e., when it ...
... his story, he may have violated the spirit of Sullivan while staying true to its letter. 14...
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Five years ago when studying theology at Oxford, I was invited to deliver a lecture at London's Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) with the prescient title, "Can the practices of the free market economy be reconciled with the teachings of the Gospels?" Although the answer was in the qualified affirmative, my IEA authence gave the lecture what might politely be described as a mixed reception. It Starts with positives such as the alleviation of poverty, family involvement in business, good stewardship, the encouragement of talent, a fair day's pay for a fair day's work, honoring agreements, cherishing the land and the natural environment, settling disputes out of court, respecting the spirit as well as the letter of the law, and paying taxes.
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COLUMBUS -- After four years in the Ohio House, Republican Josh Mandel won statewide office on his first try -- an unusual political accomplishment for a rookie. He wasn't done. Just four months into the new post as state treasurer, Mandel, 34, set his sights on yet another political office: U.S. Senate.
... support us, we expect them to follow the letter of the law and the spirit of the law," Mandel said...
