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Then, on April 25, the people would speak. Yeltsin planned to ask them in a nationwide referendum to give him a "vote of confidence," endorse a draft of a new constitution setting up a two-chamber parliament and approve a law setting up elections for this new legislative body. If the electorate said da three times, the Supreme Soviet and Congress of People's Deputies would quietly -- in theory -- pass out of existence, and the country would enjoy a spanking new, popularly elected, democratic and legitimate government...
Race was not the only reason given by Mansfield for grade inflation. In a letter to The Crimson on March 10, the professor introduced another possible explanation: Professors might have inflated grades to prevent students from losing their draft deferments and having to go to Vietnam...
...occupied units shown during the tour demonstrated the effect of thirty years of wear. The tiled floors were cracked and flaking. The painting, although redone between occupants, had developed jagged cracks. A draft blew through ill-fitting windows, and most of the lighting came from outside...
Dellums insists that in theory he's in favor of the process. "Twice before, in 1988 and 1991, I voted for closing bases," he says. "I helped draft the base-closure legislation we're working under. I've never approached this issue as a parochial or pork matter." But the Pentagon's new list, Dellums insists, smacks of political retribution rather than prudent pruning. "This is George Bush's base-closing list, and it's George Bush's base-closing commission," says an agitated Dellums, clearly distraught at the loss of jobs on his home turf. "If you think...
There is further the issue of whether the empirical data that Mansfield requests would be able to prove his claim. Other factors were in play at the time--the general liberalization of attitudes toward grading, the question of grades being inflated to allow students to avoid the draft--so that it may not be possible to empirically prove Mansfield's contention. It surprises me that an academic does not realize that making unprovable statements is sloppy scholarship...