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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee's recommendations are approved by masters, each house will decide on an ad hoc basis whether to take advantage of the increased options for its parties...
Meese's implausible assertions epitomize the ad hoc nature of the rationalizations usually offered in support of state-sanctioned murder. Normally, one could reject remarks like these as unfounded yet insignificant in comparison with more substantive views on the issue. But like it or not, Meese is the attorney general, and one cannot cursorily dismiss his views on capital punishment as having no bearing on the administration of "justice" in the United States...
...staff of The Crimson voted last night to reject an ad submitted by Playboy, soliciting women to pose for the magazine's Women of the Ivy League feature...
...majority of the staff held that Playboy and the advertisement degrade women. The staff decided that The Crimson should not aid that degradation, either tacitly or explicitly, by printing the ad...
Long before the 30-second commercial or the full-page ad, there was the poster. For more than two centuries, the U.S. has been using colorful placards and broadsides to implore the people to do the right thing, from preventing forest fires to keeping mum about military secrets during wartime. Last week 117 examples of this perennial propaganda tool, drawn by the likes of Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn and Norman Rockwell, went on display at the National Archives in Washington in a new exhibition called "Uncle Sam Speaks." The show will run for a year...