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...agree that trimming exam period from nine days to eight days would create the already mentioned problems, but I have to respectfully dissent on the grounds that trimming reading period by a day is not enough. If the administration were to comply with this request, it would effectively dodge the real issue: calendar reform. Reading period is no longer fulfilling its original goals and should therefore be reconsidered...
...freedom of speech is a long standing fundamental right, and secrecy about one's criminal past has, as I pointed out, never been one. Also, while many of the old laws restricting speech under the guise of national emergency were merely thinly veiled methods of suppressing political dissent, sexual offender registration laws have no such hidden motive, unless one wishes to argue that keeping secret from one's neighbors that one has kidnapped and raped people in the past is right on a par with the right to criticize the government and these laws are an attempt...
...traveling too much. So on Saturday, Feb. 24, he claims, he decided to take the day off. He retired to one of his Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will tell anyone willing to listen how determined he is to avoid the Soviet leader's mistakes. As a senior U.S. official says, "There is nothing more threatening to him than a perception in Cuba and around the world that...
...with a prostitute was legal, even though the confiscated car belonged to the man's wife. Tina Bennis, the owner of the car, argued that the government's taking of her 1977 Pontiac violated her constitutional rights to due process of law and compensation for seizure. In an impassioned dissent from the Court's decision, Justice John Paul Stevens called the ruling "blatantly unfair," saying the decision would allow the states to "confiscate vast amounts of property." TIME's Adam Cohen reports: "The ruling shows that the Supreme Court is willing to allow states to take a hard line...
...employee's supervisor or the supervisor's boss. About 300 round tables were held company-wide through November and December; some are still going on. Says an AT&T manager: "On the whole, people felt it went well, that the right people were selected. But there were voices of dissent. You needed to have a good mentor selling your case, some said. And the chess game hasn't stopped. There are rumors that a lot of the slotting was done just to get the numbers, to be done with the process. It was done in a hurry, and what...