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...They were just playing games. They were going to ruin the country; they didn't know how to run things," she says. "Our history books would say a person was great one day, and suddenly change the next." For example, Lynn notes, books suddenly began to laud the country's King Ch'ing, an ancient monarch, because "the Gang of Four wanted to set up a ruler just like a king. People didn't know what was going...
Title IX, if enforced and monitored as Harris has proposed, will force the NCAA--through its member schools--to treat women's athletics even more seriously in the future. The AIAW delegates, who laud themselves as the ones most interested in the further development of women's sports, could work to ensure that the NCAA considers women's matters more seriously. They also could walk away crying and try to live in their own world. That decision, though, seems likely to prove destructive in the long...
...pros laud McEnroe's ability to disguise his shots and alter his style. Predicts Borg...
However, one faculty member, who wished to remain unidentified, said yesterday "I laud the Alumni Council's decision. Someone has to do something, and brown paper bag luncheons are not enough...
...effect. Despite the grumblings of the public, newspapers are widely respected, or at least read. The press is protected, more or less, by the First Amendment, which states that Congress may make no law limiting its power. Over the years, newspapers have had ample opportunity to laud their own humanitarian accomplishments. Thousands of editorials have appeared in dailies throughout the country touting the primacy of freedom of the press in a political system. The recent battery of editorials condemning the Supreme Court for its ruling that newspapers are not above the law illustrates the determination with which the press attempts...