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...than fact, the censorship troubles of Yorkin and Lear are all too real. "Family," particularly, has at least one big crisis a season. Two winters ago, it was over the episode about homosexuality that President Nixon so disliked; last winter, a show on which Son-in-Law Mike's exam jitters made him sexually impotent. Smaller crises abound, as when CBS succeeded in knocking out the word "Mafia" from one script, the term smart-ass" from another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Villaraigosa, 48, a former labor organizer, certainly had plenty of baggage. A former street tough who grew up in East L.A., he had out-of-wedlock kids and failed the state bar exam four times. But Hahn didn't bother with any of that. He had all he needed in a letter Villaraigosa wrote to the White House in 1996, seeking a presidential pardon for convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali, whose father was a campaign contributor. Before the election, Hahn hammered Villaraigosa for a solid week with a TV ad showing images of a crack-cocaine pipe, a copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: How The West Was Won | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...Some of the pressure related to College acceptance rests on a student's performance on the SAT I exam. But the future of the SAT's role in the college admissions process is far from predictable, especially after a court decision this March...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raising the Stakes | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...Since the SAT I is owned by the College Board and administered by ETS, the exam's score reports were not immediately affected by the settlement. Instead, the College Board was asked to form a panel to study the issue of flagged scores and untimed testing...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raising the Stakes | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...identity of the mystery Harvard student wearing a kilt of shuttle schedules was the subject of much debate around campus until her upper body and name (Emily V.W. Galvin ’04) were revealed during exam period...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Boys Behind ShuttleGirl | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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