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...story of Saturday's Penn-Brown battle was a chronology of mistakes: a missed tackle, a fumble, and a bobbled ball, all of which added up to a 7-6 overturn victory for Penn...
...charges of incompetence and other costly mistakes, most of which University officials either denied or declined comment on earlier this month, have been made by one of the two relatively unknown employees, Michael W. Brown-Beasley, in his hitherto unsuccessful attempt to overturn his August 4 dismissal for insubordination as assistant to the director of the Office of Fiscal Services...
...effect a ceasefire. Ever since his victory last January in the Iowa caucuses, he has drawn criticism from right-to-life groups for his refusal to support a constitutional amendment on abortion. These attacks intensified after the Democratic Party adopted a campaign platform that openly rejected amendment attempts to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision, which struck down state laws that prohibited abortion during the first six months of pregnancy...
...constitutional amendments that would either ban abortions or give the states the right to decide the matter. Under the scrutiny of the bishops, however, Carter wavered. He agreed with them that the Democratic platform went too far in saying that "it is undesirable to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court decision in this area." Seeking to be conciliatory, he said that he did not rule out the possibility that some anti-abortion amendment that he could accept might later be drafted. He even asked the bishops if they had any proposals. Their reply...
...final court of appeals at West Point is Berry. As superintendent, he has the power to overturn the findings of the review board and decide that a cadet is innocent. But even then, the absolved cadet's classmates may shun him as a pariah. To some zealots who swear by the honor code, the very fact that a cadet is accused of wrongdoing is reason enough to condemn him -a situation that shows how a system designed to develop honor can be warped to foster dishonor...