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There seem to be two substantive ways in which the program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum chose the first course. It proposed this past fall that all students should be required to pick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revise the Core | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

These civil rights groups were not alone in their reluctance to defend affirmative action as practiced in Piscataway. The Clinton Administration (leery of the abolition of a system the President had pledged "to mend, not end") had expressed hope that the consideration of the Taxman case would not include a...

Author: By David F. Browne, | Title: Problems in Piscataway | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

Reform or Abolition?

Author: By Marc J.ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Laws Complicate Foreign Students' Lives | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Still, the effects of the abolition of rent control following a 1994 state referendum have remained a concern for some voters.

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Incumbents Sweep City; GOP Keeps N.J. | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

How can an American really be a Buddhist, a person who stresses the abolition of desires, including that for a future life? Our whole capitalistic culture depends on individualism, whereas Buddhism looks upon the individual as an illusion. Buddhism asks us to become a different person, but most of us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1997 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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