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They count their advocacy for extended party hours and later universal keycard access (UKA) among their accomplishments, and they also cite their efforts to reduce the Core requirements, make easier study-abroad, improve first-year advising and reform the lottery system in courses...
...battle for campaign finance reform has been waged in New Hampshire by Sen. John R. McCain (R-Ariz.) on his Straight Talk Express, by bowtied political pundits on Sunday morning talk shows and by toupeed legislators on Congressional floors. A federal judicial panel is now the center of the ideological battle in a suit challenging the constitutionality of the new “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.” It has pitted an unlikely alliance of the American Civil Liberties Union and former Lewinskygate prosecutor Kenneth Starr against McCain and former President Clinton’s Solicitor...
...Medical Officer Andrew I. Dayton insists that the decision was based solely on a scientific analysis of safety, which concluded that evidence supporting reform “was not forthcoming.” In a study Dayton presented before the deciding committee, he estimated that a one-year abstinence rule would introduce about 30 percent more infected blood into the supply ever year, putting up to three more blood recipients at risk of contracting HIV. “We [the FDA] are very sensitive to people’s feelings that they are being discriminated against...
...course, like the idea when phrased that way. After all, who would support the idea of taxpayers’ hard-earned money going to candidates who have made no special effort to reform their campaigns? It is no surprise, then, that Question 3’s “no” option won with 74 percent of the vote. But the sins of omission in Question 3’s wording, though less than thrilling to fans of open legislation, are not in themselves unacceptable or undemocratic; voters, one would hope, are intelligent and aware enough to vote...
...federal education commissioner in 1965, Howe was responsible for desegregating America’s public schools, changing the way policymakers approach education reform and arguing on behalf of poor children in modern education...