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Dean of Undergraduate Education Laurence Buell argued for the measure at the meeting, saying that the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) had recommended it to reduce student and parental distress at the faintly pejorative ring of the words "General Studies...
...professor spoke out against the measure, saying that parental distress is not a good reason to remove the words...
...measure of a President's entire term comes down to his handling of a single crisis. At such moments, says Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton University, "you're suddenly reminded that the presidency is an institution that people turn to in times of crisis and distress." Two years earlier to the day, Clinton had fumbled his handling of one of the first crises of his Administration, the fiery raid by federal agents of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas. On that day, Clinton all but disappeared from public view, leaving it to Reno, his new Attorney...
...depression he claimed to be experiencing while dealing with violent gang members and other "slimes and assholes," Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang detail in East Los Angeles and foot patrols in the downtown area between 1977 and 1981, years in which his second marriage was collapsing, made him feel increasingly violent and out of control. He was in fact sued during this...
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