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...Abolish the outdated practice of giving preference to seniors in Core lotteries. So what if they only have two semesters left, the offerings are scanty and the Warren Court was the only class they could fit into their busy schedules of theses, extracurriculars and fun? They can have all the fun they want in their ninth semester next fall...
Consumer advocates are worried that if Texas prevails, suits in other states will follow. "The truth is that millions of Americans are priced out of the legal system," says attorney James Turner, executive director of HALT (Help Abolish Legal Tyranny), a consumer group that works for the reform of legal practices. "Texas is endangering the rights of its citizens to get accurate, timely information that can help them handle their own legal problems...
...sloppy," he offers. But Unz, 37, does have a hobby: attempting to turn public policy upside down. Over the past eight months, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley software entrepreneur has spent $1.2 million--more than half of it his own money--to pass a ballot initiative that would all but abolish bilingual education in California...
California Republicans have railed against bilingual education for years, accusing it of producing a culturally alien, economically hopeless immigrant underclass. So when millionaire businessman Ron Unz placed a measure on this June's ballot that would abolish the program, the state G.O.P. jumped onboard, right? Not exactly. "I have not endorsed [Proposition 227]. I will not put a penny into it," says state party chairman Michael Schroeder. The likely G.O.P. gubernatorial nominee, Dan Lungren, hasn't taken a position. Neither has Bill Leonard, the party's leader in the state assembly...
They turned their mutual affection into a potent foreign policy partnership. With Reagan and Thatcher in power, the application of judicious pressure on the Soviet state to encourage it to reform or abolish itself, or to implode, became an admissible policy. Thatcher warmly encouraged Reagan to rearm and thereby bring Russia to the negotiating table. She shared his view that Moscow ruled an "evil empire," and the sooner it was dismantled the better. Together with Reagan she pushed Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue his perestroika policy to its limits and so fatally to undermine the self-confidence of the Soviet elite...