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Created to assure fair hearings on student and Faculty complaints, the Commission has been unable to perform effectively for several reasons. First, little effort was made to draw students' attention to the Commission as an avenue of appeal. Second, the Commission was never empowered to change unfair decisions. Its members haven't even established the extent of the Commission's powers of recommendation. Third, and most basic, no one with complaints on matters of broad policy--such as the University's refusal to sell its Gulf stock, the lack of student input in selecting tenured Faculty, or the determination...
...represents, in the words of Arthur Koestler, "question-begging on a heroic scale," and here is a perfect example. If people have to be interested in something before they can be reinforced by it, then reinforcement obviously presumes the very thing it is supposed to create: an inclination to perform the action in question...
...this season of chill and exasperation, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber arrived in Parliament last week to perform that ancient British rite of spring, the presentation of the annual budget. The document that he produced from the traditional red leather box was a curious one. Barber himself described it as "broadly neutral," and it was a sort of plea for economic truce. Most noticeably, it dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children...
Jonkheer, who seems to perform best in the pressure situations, made the six-man finals of the 100-yd. breast stroke at the Easterns and proceeded to finish fourth with a new Harvard record time of 1:01.19. His important, and unexpected second against Dartmouth in January in the 200-yd. breast clinched the upset win over the Big Green...
...appeared at the Time-Life Building in Manhattan and projected thoughts and images, claimed to read minds and caused a fork to bend-supposedly by using psychic energy. After Geller left, Professional Magician James Randi, who had been present, duplicated each of his feats, explaining that any magician could perform them. The fork bending, said Randi, was accomplished by sleight of hand; after distracting his audience, Geller had simply bent it with his two hands...