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...stimulation and at least eight electives. That to secure these rights, curricular guidelines are instituted among Faculty, deriving their just powers from the consent of the student body. That whenever any Core Curriculum becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Students to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Curriculum, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Intellectual Freedom and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Curriculum long established should not be changed for light and transient...
...letter to Summers, the group specifically calls for him “to support the suggestions made by [the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies], to set an annually indexed wage floor, and to abolish the practice of outsourcing...
...obtaining driver's licenses. Some, like Florida, propose having foreign nationals' licenses expire when their visa or work permit does; that would prevent illegals from using licenses as permanent IDs. North Carolina has created a registry of institutions possessing anthrax or other biological agents. And Colorado is likely to abolish a law that requires women to obtain the written permission of the Governor before serving in the National Guard...
...cutting agenda, will step down after completing his term in January 2003. AWARDED. SHAHNAZ BOKHARI, 45, a Pakistani psychologist and publisher, the Weimar's Human Rights Prize for sheltering and tending to victims of domestic violence; in Weimar, Germany. Bokhari, outspoken about women's rights, is seeking to abolish the Pakistani tradition of condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO, 70, a five-time All-Star guard for the Philadelphia 76ers and former Milwaukee Bucks coach; in Fort Myers, Florida. Costello, known as among the last to lob the two-handed set shot, clinched NBA titles alongside...
...pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them. In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise the minimum age for girls to 14, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move. An attempt by conservatives to abolish Yemen's legal minimum age of 15 for girls failed, but local experts say it is rarely enforced anyway. (The onset of puberty is considered an appropriate time for a marriage to be consummated...