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...Hyman was elected upon a solid platform called the Students' Bill of Rights. The first plank of this electoral contract focuses on student concerns: for a safe campus; for representation on College committees; for teaching fellows and professors who can teach; for a 24-hour library and the extension of hours at Loker Commons; for increased flexibility in our meal plans; for more shuttle buses and better athletic facilities; for a cohesive and competent system of advising; for information privacy in terms of grades, HIV testing and computer use. The Bill of Right's second plank reflects student concern about...
...Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "Our opponents talk about marriage like it's been the same for 6,000 years." Count on the religious right's taking the issue to the G.O.P. Convention in San Diego--and trying to force into the platform a plank banning same-sex marriages...
...from pasta, and are trying to bring pasta-type glamour and growth to the humble potato so that Amalgamated can turn a humongous profit and be sold and make top management dizzyingly rich, is cutting costs by decimating the drones, and now it's your turn to walk the plank...
With only 20 members and services just once a month, New Liberty never played a part in the civil rights movement. But like every other black church in every other black community across the nation, the modest pine-plank structure meant something special to its congregation. "The church stands as a symbol of black pride and self-sufficiency,'' says Rose Sanders, a black lawyer in Selma. "Burning one is as close as you can come to a lynching without killing somebody...
RESIGNING. ERIC OBER, 53, president of CBS News; in New York City. Ober walks the plank after five rocky years at the helm, piloting the network's news division through the rough seas of cost cuts, declining ratings and the ill-fated pairing of shipmates Connie Chung and Dan Rather...