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...Student Affairs Committee (SAC), who worked with the Registrar’s development team, said that he suspected the “seal” feature could “diminish shopping period” because any move to streamline registration potentially makes it easier to abolish shopping period in the future...
...direct descendant of the early 17th century Dutch clergyman and astronomer David Fabricius, who could not accept Johannes Kepler's discovery of elliptical planetary orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...
...none of that has translated into a serious effort to abolish nuclear weapons entirely. In the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) signed in 1968, the nuclear powers--including the U.S.--promised to "pursue negotiations in good faith" leading to a treaty on "general and complete disarmament." None of the nuclear signatories to the NPT meant what they said, and in only one of them--Britain--has there ever been a politically significant mass movement in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament. (The young Tony Blair was once a supporter...
...purposely calm voice, Reagan responded, "As I said to you, I have a right to think you want to use your missiles against us. With mere words we cannot abolish the threat...
After months of halting, halfhearted gestures toward racial reform, South Africa last week finally took a step that may significantly alter its detested system of apartheid. The government announced proposals to abolish the pass laws, a complex web of 34 regulations and proclamations that have severely restricted the ability of blacks to move freely within the country. The laws, said an official white paper announcing the reform, are a "relic of the past" and will be replaced by a non-discriminatory program of "planned, positive urbanization." Declared State President P.W. Botha: "Today we have arrived at the emancipation from guardianship...