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...Love Goddesses, put forth as a history of sex in the movies, is a grab bag of old film clips that suggests that the sundry excesses of Sweet Charlotte stem from time-honored Hollywood tradition. In The Cheat (1915), villainous Sessue Hayakawa leaves the mark of his desire on Fannie Ward's neck with a hot branding iron. In one of her early forays, Vamp Theda Bara anticipates the living bra by wearing what appears to be a giant tarantula. In Blonde Venus (1932), a gorilla lumbers through a chorus line, yanks off hirsute head and paws and clears...
...twelve Irish M.P.s were hauled from their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...accepted that no honest student can compete successfully, test after test, with cheaters. As a teacher, I have had a few experiences with students who cheat, and have concluded that we, their teachers, force these students to cheat by placing too much emphasis on tests. Do tests necessarily have to be contests in which the teacher on one hand is doing his best to outwit the student and the student on the other hand is doing his best to outguess the teacher...
...institution still on shakedown maneuvers. Academy exams, like those at approximately one-fifth of the nation's colleges, are conducted on the honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will be no shading, no equivocation, no quibbling among honorable...
...cadet's code is far harsher than rules at civilian schools, explains Brigadier General Robert F. McDermott, dean of the faculty, "because if our cadets were to cheat and carry this attitude into the service, the consequences could be a tragedy of national or international scope." But the life of Air Force cadets, most of whom were academically tops in high school, is harder in other respects as well. Many carry 146 credit hours, compared with the 120 hours required by most state universities, are encouraged while undergraduates to take extra courses leading toward a master's degree...