abridge - August 29, 2008

(verb) to shorten, to reduce.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. A Florida law that prohibits petition gathering near polling places is being challenged through a federal lawsuit filed Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The law prohibits approaching voters within 100 feet of polling
2008-08-11 22:21:00
My View of Jamdown from Up So thinks that Jamaicans are not being measured in their response to the crime situation: “Truly things…have become bad when cool-headed, optimistic people are joining in the call for ‘hard policing’; if we don’t address the
2008-08-08 12:12:11
When Sen. Ted Kennedy, valiantly fighting brain cancer, took the stage at the Democratic convention on Monday night, he made it clear that he is now on a mission that cannot be completed unless he returns to the Senate next year — with Barack Obama in
2008-08-27 04:21:39
The Democrats put Lilly Ledbetter on the dais tonight. She is complaining because the Supreme Court ruled according to the law. A very brief synopsis, because that's all that's required: the law says you must file your complaint within six months of
2008-08-27 05:00:38
"Mind you, it might secure the voters here ..." Too bad Bush signed a 25 year extension on legislation (Voting Rights Act) banning basic literacy tests for voters and other perfectly reasonable measures, eh? "We all must recognize we have more to do.
2008-08-02 18:13:29
City Manager Michael V. OBrien, in the interest of transparency, is willing to let the taxpayers pick up the bulk of the burden in meeting the prohibitively high cost Police Chief Gary Gemme has established for the Telegram & Gazette to access a police
2008-08-01 13:49:42
Dear Everyone, ***I'm not gonna lie.With 60+ posts per week on all sorts of shit I couldn't even begin to dream knowin about, I was kinda taken aback to discover that Yeez was unaware of the #1 fucking song in the country for the past fourteen thousand
2008-08-04 01:43:56
An MDC official has accused Mugabe’s outspoken spokesman George Charamba of violating the Memorandum of Understanding signed between ZANU PF and the two MDC formations by using abusive and hateful language in his weekly column in state paper The Herald.
2008-08-08 23:52:47
As we began to address last week, Digital Slobs have an almost supernatural ability to combat the late-summer blahs. Actually, we treat goofing-off season like an Olympic event. We train year-round, hours and hours a day, just so when TV goes into
2008-08-04 09:50:02
MANSFIELD -- Mansfield City Schools Superintendent Lloyd Martin expressed appreciation but sought clarification Wednesday from the initial report of the district's Fiscal Accountability Committee. "I recognize the work this independent committee has
2008-08-07 16:12:27
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The Word of the Day in quotes.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, including those defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution.

This simply gives them caution to think carefully before they abridge the students' rights to free expression by punishing their adviser

Truly things…have become bad when cool-headed, optimistic people are joining in the call for ‘hard policing’; if we don’t address the real disease now, the day will soon come when even stalwart defenders of human rights…will squeal for the Jamaican state to abridge and abuse the rights of the poor and poorly-connected.

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