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...best, for readmission within a year. After all, they have clearly violated a good half-dozen of the rules in the student handbook: "radios, television sets, phonographs, and other audible equipment shall be adjusted so as not to disturb others...No boisterous music or playing upon drums or other harsh instruments shall be allowed at any time...A student who is guilty of an offense against law and order at the time of a public disturbance or demonstration or who disregards the instructions of a proctor or other University officer at such a time may be required to withdraw...
...time, press attention focused on the severity of the sentences, which some observers said might have been less harsh than usual because the defendants were physicians...
...proposals have already come under harsh attack. Tony Bonilla, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, has denounced the amnesty plan as "tantamount to establishing serfdom." Some conservative Republicans oppose employer sanctions as yet another form of Government regulation. The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund says the sanctions will lead to job discrimination against Hispanics. Other critics argue that without a certain method of identifying illegal aliens, sanctions will be impossible to enforce. Nonetheless, there is little support for a national I.D. card. Acknowledges Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who supports some kind...
...billion Chinese people are not be bullied." With that harsh rejoinder, Peking's official New China News Agency recently went out of its way to lambast a Wall Street Journal editorial that called on the Reagan Administration to "stop cringing every time Peking throws a tantrum," and give more help to Taiwan. Some Americans, an article by the New China News Agency said, believe that China is "a piece of cake to be sliced as they please...
...movies that would show us the seamy underside of America have usually spoken movingly in the vocabulary of a director's own peculiar vision. No one can deny Scorcese's genius, but how real is Taxi Driver? Mean Streets is realistic in the sense that it's harsh and gritty, but it's a victim of its own vision. Everything has to be hard-boiled, New York is a jungle. Life is a bitch. What passes for realism is more often than not a steamy fantasy with all the grotesqueries left in. They are, in most respects, not so much...