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Given this lack of intellectual and administrative rigor, only the most directed and self-sufficient of students are able to maintain the drive that propelled them into the Yard four years ago. Other students find themselves unwilling to do their best work for courses for fear of rebuff; they know that they will receive largely the same grade in any case...
...resorting to an affirmative-action remedy. "It is a terrific opinion in our judgment," said Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland. But after reviewing the splintered opinions, most experts agreed with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She concluded that the Justices have "forged a degree of unanimity" on a key rebuff to a much bruited claim of the Reagan Administration. It has argued that affirmative action is appropriate only to remedy discrimination against specific individual victims. By O'Connor's reading, however, the court is prepared to approve "a carefully constructed affirmative-action program," which "need not be limited...
Last week, however, both the House and the Senate voted overwhelmingly to scuttle the missile sale, handing Reagan the most serious foreign policy rebuff of his presidency. It was the first time Congress had ever voted to block an arms sale that had Executive backing. Moreover, the margins of 73 to 22 in the Senate and 356 to 62 in the House were considerably wider than the two-thirds majority necessary to override a presidential veto. Nonetheless, Reagan immediately vowed that he would not only veto the congressional action but would also twist enough arms to prevent an override...
...voters have not been more critical of Waldheim's refusal to come clean, particularly since documents revealed in the past week hint at a deeper involvement than the one Waldheim is currently asking us to swallow. We can only hope, with little optimism, that the June 8, vote will rebuff...
...month Denver's popular Cafe Giovanni banned puffing entirely in its dining room; so far only one group of patrons has walked out when informed of the edict. Tobacco devotees are finding the going tougher in more intimate settings as well. Ads for housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays in their homes anymore," moans Joyce Hernandez, a secretary in Montvale, N.J., who quit last year after attending a dinner party at which she was forced to sneak a puff in, yes, the bathroom...