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Wolfson co-wrote an amicus brief in Baehr v. Miike, in which the Supreme Court of Hawaii said prohibiting same-sex marriage in the state constituted discrimination, and worked on Baker v. Vermont, the Vermont Supreme Court case that led to the creation of civil unions in Vermont by the state legislature as a compromise between Wolfson's group and those objecting to same-sex marriage.
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Wolfson also wrote a brief to New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, that helped win the elimination of the marital rape exemption ( People v. Liberta ).
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Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry argued before the Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale and founded the modern same-sex marriage movement.
Wolfson appeared before the United States Supreme Court on April 26, 2000, to argue on behalf of Scoutmaster James Dale in the landmark case Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in which the Court ruled that the Boy Scouts organization had the right to expel Dale for revealing that he was gay through their First Amendment rights.
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Klein subsequently earned a PhD from Harvard under the pioneering academic of Judaic studies Harry Wolfson.
A partial translation of Crescas was produced by Harry Austryn Wolfson of Harvard University, in 1929.
In 1994 the centre was expanded again, tripling in size and a decade later it was further expanded by the addition of the Wolfson Wing.
Two colleges admit only postgraduates ( Clare Hall and Darwin ), and four more admit only mature students ( i. e. 21 years or older on date of matriculation ) and graduate students ( Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish, St Edmund ’ s and Wolfson ).
Mention should also be made of the work of Elliot Wolfson ( Professor of Jewish Mysticism, New York University ), who has almost single-handedly challenged the conventional view, which is affirmed by Idel as well.
Wolfson likewise recognizes the importance of heteroerotic symbolism in the kabbalistic understanding of the divine nature.
Where Wolfson breaks with Idel and other scholars of the kabbalah is in his insistence that the consequence of that heteroerotic union is the restoration of the female to the male.
Just as, in the case of the original Adam, woman was constructed from man, and their carnal cleaving together was portrayed as becoming one flesh, so the ideal for kabbalists is the reconstitution of what Wolfson calls the male androgyne.
4-channel stereo multiplexed analog-to-digital converter WM8775SEDS made by Wolfson Microelectronics placed on an Sound Blaster X-Fi | X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card.
Development of the hostile tender is attributed to Louis Wolfson.
In 1969 Warren learned that Fortas had made a secret lifetime contract for $ 20, 000 a year to provide private legal advice to Louis Wolfson, a friend and financier in deep legal trouble ; Warren immediately asked Fortas to resign.
" Marriage in the United States is a civil union ; but a civil union, as it has come to be called, is not marriage ," said Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry.
In her essay " A Problem Few Dare Imitate ", Susan J. Wolfson phrases and interprets the relation of the play Sardanapalus and the myth of Myrrha:
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The Rayne and Wolfson Buildings were built in 1964 are Grade II Listed Buildings ; they are virtually identical in design, and house administrative offices on the ground floor as well as student rooms.
Rear of the buildings on the east side of the Front Quad as seen from the Wolfson Dining Hall.
This was followed shortly after by the Wolfson Building, which was constructed between 1966 and 1967 and opened by Princess Alexandra and Harold Macmillan in his role as Chancellor of the University.
Wolfson Building consists of nine staircases.
Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.
Located in north Oxford along the River Cherwell, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with over sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and junior research fellows.
The current president of Wolfson College is Hermione Lee.
She won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th century England.
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Its grounds include six major buildings, which contain student accommodation, teaching areas, dining hall, the library and administration blocks: Hall, South, Milham Ford, Wolfson, Garden, and the Christina Barratt Building ( opened in 2001 ).
Wolfson is one of a small number of Cambridge colleges which admit only students over the age of 21.
At this time, Schama wrote his first book, Patriots and Liberators, which won the Wolfson History Prize.
It is the second oldest of the four Cambridge colleges oriented to mature students, which only accept students reading for either Masters or Doctorate degrees, or undergraduate degrees if they are aged 21 or older, the oldest being Hughes Hall, and the others being Wolfson College and Lucy Cavendish College ( additionally, Darwin College and Clare Hall cater to graduate students only ).
In 2009 a grant of £ 90, 000 was made to Bath and North East Somerset Council to contribute towards the cost of re-developing displays and improving access to the Roman Baths, by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport / Wolfson Fund, which was established to promote improvements in Museums and Galleries in England.
Napier as Wolfson Lucas was teamed with Rod Taylor again for the short lived series Outlaws which also featured Richard Roundtree and William Lucking in 1986.
In 1997 the museum was awarded a £ 12. 5 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and this, together with monies from the European Regional Development Fund, the University of Manchester, the Wellcome Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and other sponsors enabled the museum to refurbish the building which reopened in 2003.
However, he only practised for a year, after which he joined the Great Universal Stores Ltd, as an executive, working for part of that time as an assistant to the Chairman, Sir Isaac Wolfson Bt.
In 1999, he published Salisbury: Victorian Titan, the authorised biography of the Victorian prime minister Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction.
Codecs which can be used with such controllers are available from many companies, including Realtek, Conexant, Analog Devices ( SoundMAX ), Integrated Device Technology ( IDT ) ( acquired from SigmaTel ), VIA, Wolfson Microelectronics, and formerly C-Media.
In 1984, a year after Wometco's founder Mitchell Wolfson died, WWHT / WSNL and the other Wometco stations were all sold to investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which also bought the Storer Broadcasting group of stations.
On January 23, 2012 Penguin Books celebrated at Wolfson College, Oxford, the golden jubilee of Vermes's The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, which has sold an estimated half-a-million copies worldwide.
Wolfson, who many consider to be the father and leader of the same-sex marriage movement, authored the book Why Marriage Matters ; America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, which Time Out New York magazine called, " Perhaps the most important gay-marriage primer ever written ..." He was listed as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Gordon Johnson, president of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and general editor of " The New Cambridge History of India ", argues that Amartya Sen's political aim is to expose " India's new cultural chauvinism ", which " relates Indian identity to a particular sort of Hinduism " fanning communal violence, before a dispassionate analysis of historical facts: Sen is trying to give India a prestige it just did not have.
It features a new vertical form factor and uses the Wolfson WM8960 audio codec, which allows for a built-in speaker.
Rose liked Wolfson's display and ordered 500 clocks, which for Wolfson at the time was a big order.
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