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" You know , it 's like saying everybody can have a meal but only people with separate skin can get the dessert , " he said.In the cases at issue - - Parents Involved in Community Schools Inc. v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County ( Ky. ) Board of Education - - both systems offer parents and students a choice of schools , partly to achieve a level of integration that would n't otherwise be possible because of racially segregated housing patterns . At the headquarters of the New York Police Department , in a high-ceilinged , wood-floored room , Erhan Yildirim is speaking to a group of officers . They " do n't take into account the gorillas _ Greenland and Antarctica , " said Ohio State University earth sciences professor Lonnie Thompson , a polar ice specialist . Douglas A. Berman , a law professor at Ohio State University , said : " It 's probably the normal number , but I always think they take too many . " Del. Clarke N. Hogan , a Republican from Halifax County who grinned and answered " no comment " when asked if he 'd ever attended a cockfight , said he is open to the need to elevate the penalties . " It is improbable the jurors believed that the parties were engaging in an exercise in futility when respondent presented ( and both counsel later discussed ) his mitigating evidence in open court , " he wrote.He noted in the opinion , joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia , Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr ., that it was the third time the court has upheld the specific instructions . Just like you have to keep increasing the weights at the gym to make it challenging , you have to do the same with mental activity . " You just sort of scratch your head when you think about that , " Abramson said.More than 50 years after the Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that separate schools are inherently unequal , the court will consider tomorrow whether race can still be a factor when school systems design programs to promote racial integration . " And a week before the State of the Union address a dozen evangelicals called action against global warming a " moral imperative " in a joint statement with scientists from the Centers for Disease Control , NASA , Harvard and other institutions.There is still plenty of opposition to action on global warming in both the evangelical and business communities , but the tide is clearly turning . " You just ca n't explain the observed changes that we've seen in the last half of the 20th century by invoking natural causes , " said Benjamin Santer , a U.S. government scientist who was involved in previous IPCC assessments.The scientists who will gather in Paris this coming week to complete the first section of this year 's IPCC report are not allowed to talk about the early drafts that have been circulating in recent months.But there is little doubt that when the report is released on Friday it will include references to some of the specific environmental effects of global warming that have already been observed , and an even stronger statement about the imminent threat of global warming . " The court has recognized for a century that in that area , when national banks have powers , including incidental powers recognized by the comptroller , they generally preempt any state law , " said Robert A. Long Jr ., who represents Wachovia , but whose case is supported by the entire banking industry.Roberts said it seemed that banks wanted to be viewed as federally governed on regulation issues but state-based to shelter themselves from liability issues . It will be the second full term for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr ., who succeeded the late William H. Rehnquist , and the first full term for Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr ., who replaced the more moderate Sandra Day O'Connor . " Wittes worries that " the increasingly partisan nature of Senate votes on nominees " such as Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr ., " probably imprints upon " newly seated justices " a stronger partisan identity than they had prior to nomination .