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...Florida, would limit House and Senate members to 12 years in office once the measure is ratified by the states. But even its proponents admit that they have only about 185 solid Republican votes and 35 Democratic votes for the measure--70 short of the 290 needed to amend the Constitution. According to the Term Limits Legal Institute, approximately 35 of the G.O.P. holdouts--including nine committee chairmen--have spent an average of 14 years in Congress already. Of those, 13 voted for a 1989 pay raise, bounced an average of 43 checks each in the House banking scandal...
...midst of this furor, the Penn faculty executive committee has called for tougher rules against faculty-student romances; it wants to amend the policy that calls such relationships "unethical" so that it would prohibit professors from dating students under their supervision. For her part, Topol doubts this will do any good. "I can't imagine how any student would come forward after seeing what Penn has done to me," she says. "Penn's response has done nothing but make the wounds deeper and more painful...
...have always said, "Truth never got in the way of a good Crimson story." I guess I need to amend that statement now--"Truth never got in the way of a good Crimson story...unless the story had something to do with the Crimson...
While the authors took pains to portray their 43-page document as a set of talking points binding no one, it was contentious enough to require four years of negotiation. London and Dublin each surrendered some bedrock from their historic stands. The Irish government will move to amend the articles in its constitution that claim jurisdiction over Ulster. Britain will rewrite its laws to permit Northern Ireland's voters to decide whether to remain with Britain or join the Republic of Ireland...
...address such conduct. In the LaMacchia case, civil libertarians were disturbed at what they saw as strong-arm tactics: an attempt to mold criminal law according to what the Justice Department wanted. Judge Stearns, in his decision to dismiss the case, suggested that it was up to Congress to amend the copyright laws if it wanted to encourage this sort of prosecution...