Word: assailants
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...question on his ability to impartially administer the rules of the College where a group such as the BGLSA is concerned. Is a group's right to free speech and the protection of the University dependent on its status as a "politically correct" organization? Can students threaten, deface, and assail without fear of University action so long as their target is an unpopular group such as AALARM...
...apparent impotence of current programs in the face of the face of the problems of the underclass is what makes Norplant's use-- required or with incentives--so tempting. No one who seriously cares about the plight of the poor can assail the short-term logic of resorting to Norplant. But it is based on a false premise: merely reducing the number of children born into poverty or other adverse living conditions does not in itself remove the condition and is thus an overly simplistic method of dealing with the current crisis...
...around, the focus of that anxiety, even desperation, is not the teachers, the curriculum or the school budgets. Instead, public education itself, the very notion that government should run the schools, is under attack. Powerful figures, including President George Bush and his Education Secretary, Lamar Alexander, have begun to assail the public schools as a self-satisfied, self-protective monopoly that needs to feel the hot breath of free-market competition. They pose a radical alternative: rather than one common school for all, many kinds of schools -- public and private -- competing for students, government funds and excellence, with parents...