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Capital-punishment opponents are divided; the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, an organization with 120 affiliated groups, has taken no stance. Some members argue that if Americans want the death penalty, they should face the consequences of their action squarely. If they cannot bear the thought of watching public executions, then they may realize that it does not make moral sense to permit executions in private either. Other death-penalty opponents maintain that whatever the potential gains, televised executions are too ghoulish to consider. Says Donald Gillmor, professor of media ethics at the University of Minnesota...
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Even President Derek C. Bok acknowledges that the time has come for a drastic overhaul of the system. Rudenstine should consider installing a tenure track. At the very least, he should abolish the ad hocs...
Nikita Khrushchev once scoffed that his country would ditch communism when "a shrimp learns to whistle." Much of the world thought it heard that unlikely music last March when Soviet legislators amended the constitution to abolish the Communist Party's guaranteed monopoly on political power. Four months later, establishment baiter Boris Yeltsin shocked a party congress by staging a dramatic walkout, leading an exodus of some 2 million disaffected members. But Khrushchev's miracle may not have been quite enough. By last week, it had become clear that die-hard disciples of Marx and Lenin were determined to regain...
...bill to abolish public-funded scholarships does go through, its most likely effect at Harvard would be to raise tuition, he says...