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According to Viggiani, "People felt that it was not a solid foundation for making disciplinary decision--it's hard to use [the 'yes' criterion] as a guide on whether an assault had taken place...
According to Viggiani, "People felt that it was not a solid foundation for making disciplinary decision--it's hard to use [the 'yes' criterion] as a guide on whether an assault had taken place...
...World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent. Beyond that, some U.N. members did not bear much scrutiny when it came to internal violence. While condemning bloodshed in Soweto, for example, Syria freely bombarded insurgents in the city of Hama...
...voices of complaint from American women have been weeded out of the text and papal pronouncements brought to the fore. The current draft proclaims sexism to be a sin, in church or society. Dioceses are asked to establish women's commissions. Willingness to treat women as equals is a criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls, which Rome rules...
...criterion for a good musical has always been the ability to draw us in far enough so that we can suspend disbelief and accept the characters' expression of their emotions through song and dance. Newsies is not a winner here. As directed by Kenny Ortega, the choreographer whose credits include the film Dirty Dancing , Newsies is a long, half-hearted romp through what is made to seem a not terribly compelling chapter in New York's history...