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Francis, Leslie | Elderly immigrants: what should they expect of the social safety net? | The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) terminated federal benefits to many immigrants. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) only partially restored these benefits to select immigrants who lawfully resided in the United States before August 22, 1996. Pr... | 1997 | |
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Flynn, John J. | Flaws in higher education governance are putting the U of U at risk | The governance of colleges and universities has been an enduring source of controversy. At one time or another in the long history of higher education, paramount powers of governance have been claimed by students, faculty, clergy, administrators, boards of regents or trustees, and one or another b... | Institution; University; System | 1997 |
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Mallat, Chibli | The Lebanese Legal System | Lebanon was established in its present borders in 1920, in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman empire. It acquired the main elements of its judicial and legal systems under the French mandate (1920-1943), and has retained most of them to date. | 1997 | |
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Francis, Leslie | Legal truth and moral realism | This January, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in appeals from two controversial "right to die" cases; decisions in the cases are expected by the end of the term.1 The Ninth Circuit case held that Washington's ban on assisted suicide, including physician-assisted suicide, violate... | Suicide; Dying; Ethics | 1997 |
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Francis, Leslie; Battin, Margaret P.; Botkin, Jeffrey R.; Jacobson, Jay A. | Quick easy questions for analyzing medical ethical cases | Sometimes, traditional philosophical ways of analyzing medical-ethics cases seem just too cumbersome, particularly to people without training in ethical theory. The issues are important, interesting, often compellingly engaging. But it isn't the time for heavy jargon, or terms like "deontology" or ... | 1997 | |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Seeing the stranger as enemy: coming out | In March 1996 the Utah state legislature banned gay / straight student support groups in all Utah public high schools. This act, along with the rhetoric of several legislators attacking gay and lesbian students, precipitated a rally of some 2,000 people at Salt Lake City's Wallace F. Bennett federal... | Utah; Legislature; Gay/straight alliance; Public high school; Protest marches | 1997 |
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