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Napolitano deserves all the vituperation she has gotten, for plagiarism is the most serious academic crime possible. Her pathetic attempts to weasel out of penalties on sophistries--she insisted just two weeks ago that "there was no attempt on my part to deceive" her Spanish professor--warrant equal criticism. But as her legal appeals drag through the courts interminably, it becomes increasingly clear that other issues relating to the campus case--besides just how unethical Napolitano's behavior has been--are much more intriguing...
...first time we've gotten a clean score off a corner this season," Crimson Coach Edie Mabrey said. Her charges practiced short corners last week and will continue to work on them this week...
...such a possible union incursion on its turf that it's willing to make a fairly generous deal on salaries if the players will only give up on their demand for a say in the team's operation. Indeed, that's exactly how most American companies and unions have gotten along since World War II. As long as the union agrees to let management manage, bosses will "deliver the goods" in the form of higher wages...
...possible aspect of missions: that of implicit coercion. "My family had expected me to go on a mission since birth, and of course that was one of the reasons I started thinking about it." Beck says. "It's hard to say, but I think even if I hadn't gotten more deeply involved I would have done a mission." Peer and parental presure in favor of missions are great among Mormon communities...
While it's always difficult to determine how effective a boycott is, it seems fair to say that this particular one has not gotten the kind of near-unanimous support old-style boycotts have long obtained in the civil rights movement in America. By all accounts, 59 students is not a particularly low number to be taking a civil rights offering at the Law School. Professor Derek Bell, who taught the last civil rights course given there, says that his course generally attracted from 40 to 90 students, and that 59 was certainly not an unusually small number of people...