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Vazquez said a woman administrator, whose name he could not recall, told him that not turning in his study card would allow him to withdraw, despite an explicit statement in the Summer School catalogue warning that "merely ceasing to attend classes does not constitute withdrawal...
While Byrd did not receive explicit assurances from the Soviets, he believes that they would acquiesce to some reservations to help get the treaty through the Senate. What Moscow could do is make a distinction between substantial changes to the actual text of the treaty and reservations or understandings attached to the Senate's Resolution of Ratification, the parliamentary instrument by which the upper chamber approves treaties. U.S. legal practice makes no such distinction: understandings and reservations are just as binding on both parties to an accord as an amendment to the treaty itself. But the Soviets might...
Some examples are clearer than others. Keats enjoyed an occasional draft of opium, and, Dr. Ober points out, his imagery can be pharmacologically explicit ("My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains . ."). Restoration Poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, enshrined his premature ejaculations in The Imperfect Enjoyment. The disorder, Ober suggests may have been caused by confusion and guilt: the earl was bisexual...
...ruling last year in the case of Allan Bakke, the white who was denied admission to the medical school of the University of California at Davis because of a minority quota. In Bakke, the court took a muddled position on the reverse-discrimination issue: it said no to explicit quotas for minorities, at least in admissions to publicly supported universities, but it also declared that, yes, race could be a factor in choosing applicants. It did not speak at all to the issue of the fairness of affirmative action in employment...
...others are judged. "Be there a thousand lives, my great curiosity has stomach for 'em all," exclaimed Boswell; his nosy exuberance sends the pages flying. His contemporaries devoured Boswell with as much enthusiasm as we do, but he made them uncomfortable: he was too candid, they thought, too explicit about Johnson's faults and foibles...