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...Russian origin of American baseball is a simple fact and a closed issue, but Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, jocularly dubbed "Goose Glasnost" by the Professional Lapta Writers Association, has graciously allowed speculation on how the game actually got to America. Pravda believes it was stolen by a Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow who scurrilously wheedled details of lapta out of an unwary Russian cook during an evening of illicit and probably drug-induced lovemaking sometime during the mid-19th century...
Maraging 350 steel is a special steel alloy used in the enrichment of weapons- grade uranium. After a 20-month undercover investigation, federal officials in Philadelphia arrested Arshad Pervez, a Canadian of Pakistani origin, on charges of attempting to export the alloy. The apparent destination was Pakistan, which has repeatedly denied charges that its nuclear facility at Kahuta is intended to produce weapons. Democrat Stephen Solarz of New York, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, criticized the Pakistani government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq for showing "blatant disregard" for U.S. antiproliferation laws...
...would be crude and misleading to say that Jefferson's ideas about building illustrate the ideas of the American Constitution. But they certainly grew from the same origin -- the secular humanism that, despite the gaudy bleatings of today's religious right, was their common moral root. Thus the calm, measured, lucid interior of Jefferson's Rotunda, the focus of his "academical village" (the University of Virginia), declares the value of reason and persuades us that humane analysis, not blind faith, is the true measure of a decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were...
Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, sharply dissented. The two latest Reagan appointees argued that the Louisiana law was a valid attempt to let students decide "for themselves, based upon a fair presentation of the scientific evidence, about the origin of life." They attacked the majority for believing that any government requirements restricting the teaching of evolution "must be a manifestation of Christian Fundamentalist repression." The dissenters said this majority "predisposition" was "created by the facts and the legend" of the Scopes case...
...opportunity should be shut behind our generation. However, it is important to consider what is involved when a "balanced" freshman class is engineered with changing numbers of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. The diversity principle proclaims not only that students of every sex, race, creed, color, religious group and national origin should have access to a Harvard education, but also that the individuals who fill these classifications must participate as part of the whole while remaining as unique as before...