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Lots of judges out there might fit Reagan's criteria on abortion, school prayer and friendliness to big business. But plenty of them are not good judges capable of reasoning and balancing issues that range from the obscure or trivial or unexpectedly profound. And if Reagan chooses a clown, then he might do well by antiabortion groups, but flop for the country as a whole...
Harvard's lawyers told the hearing examiner in March that they did not think the building fell under the legal criteria for rent-controlled apartments...
Much of the miseducation mess springs from the stretching of entrance standards. Tulane President Eamon Kelly, who shut down the basketball program last spring after five players were implicated in a point-shaving scheme for money, conceded last week that his school still has "multiple criteria for admissions," although he is working hard to change them. Nonathletes aspiring to enter Tulane for a B.A. or an engineering degree need Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of 1,135 and 1,215 respectively (out of a possible range from 400 to a perfect 1,600). A talented athlete, however, may slide in with...
Gore and other P.M.R.C. founders want song lyrics made available with records and tapes, and are demanding, in Gore's words, "a one-time panel to recommend a uniform set of criteria." The P.M.R.C. has backed off from its earlier insistence on specific ratings, such as V for violence, X for explicit lyrics and O for occult. "We do not want censorship in any shape or form," Gore insists. Comments Baker: "The issue affects my family. I really believe that the escalation of violence and sexuality is a form of child abuse...
...statement released by the NEA yesterday called the ART "excellent" and said the criteria for receiving the conditional grants, which it characterized as very difficult to meet, are primarily artistic achievements...