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...activities and cut the UC budget by approximately 25 percent. If the Council were truly repentant for its sins, it would offer students the chance to vote on such a scaling back of its responsibilities and reducing its expenses. But since this is unlikely to happen, I recommend a partial opt-out procedure where students can hold the UC accountable and improve their social lives as well.The scheme is simple. Students who currently pay the Student Activities Fee divide up into groups of four, and select one group member to opt-out of the termbill payment. This member then agrees...
George R.R. Martin is fond of sudden reversals. The tasty but poisoned dish, the false god who abruptly proves all too real, the unsalvageable rogue who strikes a hidden vein of decency when we--and he--least expect it. Martin is also partial to sacked castles, bear pits, disastrous battles, cynical betrayals, public executions, assassinations, ill luck, duels to the death, ambushes in forests and corpses left rotting in green hedgerows. The world Martin writes about may bear a passing resemblance to Olde Englande, but it is not a Merrie...
...Anne Lauvergeon had been given the choice, the French nuclear-energy company she heads would have been the next state-owned firm slated for partial privatization. Earlier this year, she and her colleagues at Paris-based Areva jumped the gun by preparing all the official paperwork for a public offering, and lobbied the government hard to be next in line. Her insistence ruffled some feathers, especially in the Finance Ministry, according to people familiar with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering. And late last month, she officially lost her battle when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and Finance Minister Thierry Breton...
...TICKET TO HELL ... AND BACK It's possible that one day someone will write a more juvenile song than Knockers ("You're devilish and dirty/ They say you're pushing 30"), but one senses that the Darkness, which is about as dark as Richard Simmons and just as partial to spandex, could turn around and top it. The band is proud of its bad jokes, virtuoso guitar playing and the epic British shriek of singer Justin Hawkins, and with songs like Bald, the greatest track ever written about the scourge of male pattern baldness, it deserves...
...undue burden” on the right to get an abortion. Nothing short of a woman’s right to choose is at stake here.Much has been made of the fact that Alito concurred with the 2000 opinion Planned Parenthood v. Farmer, which struck down a partial-birth abortion ban. But he was simply following the precedent of the Supreme Court’s ruling from earlier that year in Stenberg v. Carhart. We disagree that this concurrence demonstrates any sort of moderation in Alito’s views on abortion rights.Many of his other opinions?...