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That may sound like impractical idealism. But many of the most competitive institutions in the country--including Princeton, Dartmouth, and Stanford--have honor codes that formally prohibit proctored exams...
...chairmanship after the board forced chairman John Gutfreund and two other top executives to step down. Buffett immediately brought in Deryck C. Maughan, 43, who until recently ran Salomon's Asian operations from Tokyo, and jettisoned two bond traders. Executives admitted that the firm had violated the rules that prohibit any one bidder from buying more than 35% of a single issue at a Treasury auction, and that they had skirted regulations barring a firm from submitting bids in its customers' names without their authorization in order to conceal such illegal efforts to influence the market...
...Yeltsin announced that they would hold a rally in central Moscow on March 28. In a meeting at Gorbachev's office, Pugo conjured up the specter of "neo-Bolsheviks storming the Kremlin." The rally was a direct challenge to Gorbachev's personal authority, said Pugo. Gorbachev agreed to prohibit all rallies and to back up the ban with a show of force by bringing troops and tanks into the capital...
...Republican right. Gary L. Bauer, president of the Family Research Council and a Reaganite conservative, complained, "We already know teenagers have sex too early, too ! often and with too many people." In the House, California Republican William Dannemeyer proposed an amendment to the NIH appropriations bill that would prohibit federal funding for future sex surveys, while Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder called the cancellation of the study "nothing less than medical McCarthyism...
...court is kicking some issues back to lawmakers, the Chief Justice has been willing to do some of his own legislating from the bench. A revealing case in point is his persistent effort to streamline capital punishment. For years Rehnquist urged Congress to pass a law that would prohibit death-row inmates from repeatedly filing so-called habeas corpus petitions requesting that their verdicts or sentences be reconsidered in court. Rehnquist complained that they needlessly dragged out death sentences and crowded the court with mostly frivolous petitions...