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...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...
...Armstrong, Winthrop and Niemiec all agree that Harvard and Radcliffe should abolish the pre-’77 agreement so that Harvard could solicit all graduates of Radcliffe...
...Abolish the Core...
...budget's 11.5% increase in funding for the Department of Education, which now secures its place as the third largest Cabinet department. Only a few years ago, those skinflints "who wanted Small Government without regard to need" (also known as Republicans, of the pre-compassionate variety) tried to abolish that department...
...Abolish high school? What a great idea! I have often wondered why the educational establishment had not tried a more radical approach to school reform. In the early years of our country, students went to college at an age where our current young people are marking time in high school. And it was not only the elite who were so well-educated. Read the letters of a Revolutionary War soldier for yourself or take a history test from an 1865 textbook to determine the education level of the average person...