Guest guest Posted June 11, 2002 Report Share Posted June 11, 2002 a pigeon fancier is someone who breeds and raises fancy pigeons " watchdog " <pascal wrote: > > Like the cigarettes, right!? let's get'em! > > WatchDog >-------------- > >The man who would sue America's junk-food industry > >www.upperworld.org >Monday, June 10 2002 @ 10:51 AM CDT >Contributed by: Michelle > " WASHINGTON (NewZealandNews)Professor John Banzhaf likes to pose this >challenge to students in his graduate class on legal activism at George >Washington University in Washington, DC. Think of something that really >irritates you or smacks of obvious civil injustice. Then think of a way of >using the law to right the wrong and seek redress. " > > " In other words, as Banzhaf puts it with the freewheeling candour we have >come to expect from the American legal system, let's sue the bastards. > >It's a unique approach to legal education that has had some astonishing >results. Banzhaf's students successfully forced the stuffy Washington Cosmos >Club to admit women and got dry-cleaners to stop charging women more than >men for laundering their shirts. Back in the 1970s, they sued Spiro Agnew, >the Vice-President who left office in disgrace shortly before his boss, >Richard Nixon, forcing him to return the bribes he had received. " ... > >------- > > I have a question; Since I'm french, I don't know what this means: Falcon >deaths blamed on pigeon fanciers > > Whats a fancier? I saw it on the same upperworld site > > WD > > > > > >To to the Digest Mode [ recommended ], send an email to: vegan-network-digest > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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