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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rowley, a deaf girl about to enter fifth grade in Peekskill, N.Y., the 6-to-3 ruling means that she will not get the $15,000-a-year sign language interpreter she sought. Rehnquist noted that even without such help, the youngster reads lips well enough and has sufficient assistance to do above-average work. For the more than 4 million other children protected by the 1975 law, the ramifications are unclear. Their advocates are generally relieved that the court left intact the statute's fundamental safeguards. They are fearful, however, that the decision's language leaves room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Court's Final Flurry | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...instant the fight ended, officially at 2:52 of the 13th round, blaring patriotic music came on the loudspeaker system, including the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The young men in Cooney's entourage, most of them grade-school buddies from Long Island, pressed together around him in his corner, and some of their eyes were redder than his. The sparrowlike head of Ray Arcel poked through the challenger's huddle, and Holmes' man whispered generously: "Don't get discouraged, Gerry. Keep trying. You're still going to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

Rational, Students reading How To won't run to get their eyes checked. How many of these "helpful" hints--printed in all capitals for easy reading--would change your life? "MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT SECTION." "PLAN YOUR PROGRAM CAREFULLY." "NO GRADE IS FINAL." "YOU MUST TAKE EVERY EXAM AND YOU MUST TURN IN ALL REQUIRED PAPERS. "How about getting a head start on a major freshman year? Don't unless you are "ABSOLUTELY, DEFINITELY AND DECIDEDLY SURE that you know what you want...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life in the Fast Lane | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

...forlom Princetonian, Napolitano, goes far beyond the cliched dangers of pre-professionalism. These folks achieve in college merely to clench a career. They also view the entier four-year experience with scorn--as a game played against a system which threatens to slap them with a bum grade and send their lives, families, future children and bank accounts down the tubes. These darlings of the New and More Vicious Darwinism rationalize their suggestions in a conclusion entitled "Now You Are Ready to fight"..."No grad school or employer expects you to know anything, in any depth. Besides, you have learned...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life in the Fast Lane | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

...tasemating trasitional passage entitled "Calendar," the author traces a series of events spanning from "Registration" to "Grade Reports Issued." The essence of time itself, slipping, fleeing away--the days, weeks, even months--emerges with a subtle power. Accompanying the two page section is an illustration six students sitting beneath a tree in front of Robinson Hall one wearing striped basketball socks. They contemplate their calendars. The summer leaves hang attached to various branches...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Summer in the Ukraine | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

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