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Rudenstine presented a rough draft of his report to the Faculty Council on November 16, and he wrote the final report based on reactions and criticisms of his initial presentation...
...abandoning their country. It seems that "victim chic," ordinarily decried as a left-wing phenomenon, knows no bounds of reason or ideology. These people, after all, are less like traditional refugees than they are like the Americans who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. They are fleeing the draft -- of their wallets, not their bodies. It's a smaller imposition, some might think. Those who fled in the 1960s were motivated, at best, by principled opposition to a government policy and, at worst, by a desire to save their own lives. The "new refugees" merely want to save money...
...watch out if he comes down here." Today Helms said he made a mistake "which I shall not repeat." Although Democrats rebuked Helms and Republicans distanced themselves from both sets of comments, Helms went ahead and again slammed Clinton, saying the president has "serious problems with his record of draft avoidance, with his stand on homosexuals in the military, and with the declining defense capability of America's armed forces."Helms is doing what he does best: playing the role of a vociferous attack dog tearing at the Administration, even though he is now slated to assume a position...
...steam began rising for Carnegie Mellon University four weeks ago, when one of its research associates, Martin Rimm, informed the administration that a draft of his study of pornography on the computer networks was about to be released. Rimm had made an elaborate analysis of the sexually oriented material available online. Not only had he put together a picture collection that rivaled Bob Guccione's (917,410 in all), but by tracking how many times each image had been retrieved by computer users (a total of 6.4 million downloads), he had obtained a measure of the consumer demand for different...
...Latin America. For me, the best example of all is the U.S. Army." Gore, who subsequently joined the Army and served in Vietnam, isn't yet getting the kind of flak that continues to face President Clinton, who's haunted by his post-college letter to his Arkansas draft board.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...