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Late last week Clinton's team was concentrating its fire on Richard Bryan of Nevada and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin. Worried about the impact that limited deductions for entertainment would have on Nevada's casinos, conferees wrestled with an exemption on "live entertainment" that they dubbed the "Wayne Newton provision...
Elsewhere, this might have had no official consequence. But in 1990, Washington responded to a rash of gruesome sex crimes with the bold and much debated Community Protection Act, addressing sexually violent predators. Its most controversial provision -- that at the moment of their release, habitual, violent sexual offenders may be...
Mansfield's stance found some support, as the Faculty voted to drop the report's provision encouraging participation in national debate. But a number of faculty members stood strongly against Houthakker and Mansfield.
Mansfield also proposed that a provision that does not absolve an intoxicated student of responsibility in perpetrating rape be broadened to require consent.
The fact of the matter is, there can be no greater contribution to education and knowledge than the provision of the security and stability which allows scholars to undertake their studies in peace.