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...National Right to Life Committee. Pro-choice advocates regard last week's holding in Rust as an ominous harbinger of decisions to come. "Justice Souter showed his true colors today," said Judith Lichtman, president of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, adding that the Roe ruling was in "immediate peril...
BUSINESS: Pension Peril...
...tampering with the structure of the school curriculum is fraught with peril. But there are some powerful reform movements afoot, not the least of which is President Bush's own "Education Strategy," announced last month. The thrust of the President's plan is to overhaul schools by setting clear educational goals, giving teachers greater autonomy in how they reach those goals and then holding them accountable for the performance of their students. In one form or another, those changes will eventually percolate through the system, and for once, the demands of educators and the challenges posed by technology...
...Souza reacts as if he is hearing them for the first time. Too young to have lived through the Vietnam era on campus, D'Souza fails to realize that tenured professors with radical views are not solely a postmodernist phenomenon. Like the Broadway theater, liberal education always seems in peril. Luckily for D'Souza, equally constant is the off-campus demand for books direly proclaiming the end of Western Civilization courses as we knew them. Not to worry; Shakespeare will survive...
Yale, like Harvard, suffered the perils of graduation last June. The Bulldogs lost two first-team All-Americas, record-setting midfielder Jon Reese and goaltender. Tony Guido, putting this year's squad's future into peril. The graduation of feeder Jason O'Neill and crease attackman Karl Wimer also removed some of Yale's offensive punch...