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...reform, unemployment and despair in the name of reform, a downward spiral towards devolution in the name of reform and, in the words of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), a "social calamity" in the name of reform. If this be reform, then give me the status quo...
Sources within HDS and close to the committee have said that students and administrators are largely satisfied with the status quo...
...another level, a moment of silence is healthy for a society in which noise and near chaos are the status quo. Consider how few truly quiet times there are in an average day. We use noise to wake us in the morning, and it seems to follow us until sweet slumber shields us from the sounds of the outside world. Shutting up for a minute or two would be an auditory oasis: a treat for the mind, body and soul alike. Imagine how much more pleasant it would be if we could drive the Mass. Pike in total silence. Stopping...
Though he sometimes sounds like a champion of the status quo, with all its inequities, Scalia points out that it is not the court's job to decide what is right, only what is constitutional. When his fellow Justices cast themselves as moral arbiters, as he insisted they did in the V.M.I. case, their enterprise, he wrote, "is not the interpretation of a Constitution, but the creation of one." The one we have suits Scalia just fine...
...influential than our parents, civil and religious leaders or teachers? My high school journalism teacher, Elizabeth Spaulding, is retiring this year after achieving more than your 25 important people. She taught her students how to make their own beliefs, visions, ideas and tastes, and not just accept the status quo. Now that's truly having an influence on others. A. SPIRO SKENTZOS North Hollywood, California...