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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students may not be in favor of increased funding for the Educational Testing Services when there's barely enough money to pay for basics like books and papers. But the issue deserves more than lip-service. One year from now Americans should be able to vote for the candidate with the best educational policy after hearing the merits of all. Let's hope that both sides are up to the challenge...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Democrats Must Catch up to Bush on Education | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Critics charge that doing this would make the planning board more responsive to political winds, which tend to overtly favor liberal causes...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Slow Shift to Center Continues; Healy May Be on Way Out | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...members of SAC, which is the student governing body of the IOP, voted overwhelmingly in favor of reducing the number of members from a range of 25-30 to a range of 15-20, according to SAC chair Byron J. McLain...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP votes to Reduce Advisory Group Size | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

Dryer said the committee's vote in favor of the proposal bodes well for future reforms...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP votes to Reduce Advisory Group Size | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...both instances, the issues are thorny. The Florida case weighs the public interest served by allowing police broad power in cracking down on illegal firearms against an individual's constitutional protection from unwarranted search and seizure. Criminal-rights activists contend that a ruling in law enforcement's favor will in esssence allow police to search and detain whomever they please, as long as they say they received a tip that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendants' Rights Go Under the Microscope | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

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