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...loophole in the 1983 rule allowed "partial qualifiers," students with a 2.0 high school GPA who didn't make the requisite standardized test score, to attend college on athletic scholarships for one year. Although partial qualifiers lost one year of athletic eligibility and were not permitted to compete in their first year, they had a chance to gain eligibility by posting a 2.0 GPA during that year...
...problem with this loophole is that it provided a tremendous incentive for unscrupulous institutions to cheat. High schools were under pressure to give academically deficient athletes a C average so they would be eligible for athletic scholarships. Dishonest colleges could make partial qualifiers eligible by enrolling them in gut courses. So Proposition 48 only hurt the schools that were honest enough not to take advantage...
...this is only a partial register. Scores of additional works are listed under such disparate categories as the solar system, the meaning of the Greek myths, the shaping of England, the birth of the U.S. and secular explanations of the Old Testament: "If the Biblical account ((of Jericho)) is taken literally, this is a miracle, but . . . while the defenders watched in fascination at the slow parading about the city, and listened to the awesome sound of the trumpets, they might not have had time to see and hear the very mundane activity of Joshua's sappers slowly undermining the city...
Fighting back tears, the former editor of children's books recalled how Steinberg had first wooed her by promising to teach her about life. The lessons, she testified, soon turned to assaults so severe that she lost her spleen, several teeth and partial hearing in one ear. Her eye was damaged, her nose broken, and one knee hobbled. Six times, Nussbaum claimed, she tried to run away, but she always returned. She had become convinced she "could not survive without him." After one pummeling in 1984, she fled to a shelter for battered women and was sent to Bellevue Hospital...
Antiapartheid sympathizers won partial victories in two celebrated South African causes last week. State President P.W. Botha commuted the death sentences of the Sharpeville Six, five black men and one black woman sentenced under the so-called common-purpose law for joining a mob that murdered a black official in 1984. International leaders had long pleaded with Botha to pardon the six. He finally did, but they must still serve jail terms of from 18 to 25 years...