Word: regard
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...curtailed. But as Charles Krauthammer noted [VIEWPOINT, April 20], many minority students were enrolling in schools whose academic requirements far exceeded their abilities and preparation. At heart, this is a socioeconomic problem. Many minority students come from low-income families, in which education is often not held in high regard. As a result of their parents' indifference, a number of these children do not perform well in school and are generally ill prepared for any college, much less schools with high academic standards, like the University of California, Berkeley. It's time for the media and minority leaders to quit...
...resolutions condemning Israel under the assumption that the U.N. offers an impartial, reliable perspective on Israeli policy when in fact the body remains tainted by the infamous resolution passed in 1975 equating Zionism with racism. While the U.N. repealed this resolution nearly two decades later, should one not regard the United Nations with wary eye in this arena...
...their filing, Administration lawyers included a letter George Bush sent to Merletti in which the former President supported their argument. (In an accompanying letter, Bush noted that he also held Starr in high regard.) But the current President was keeping his distance from the whole dispute. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said Clinton had no position on the privilege. "We've got to stay 100 miles away from it," says a White House official. "Anything we say is seen through the prism of scandal...
Most executives on The Crimson recognize the incident exposed some gray areas in the newspaper's policy, especially with regard to the use of electronic media. Some of the issues that need to examined further are: Is everything on an e-mail subscription list public? Should unconfirmed e-mail be cited? To take it a step further, can a paper use e-mails where the author denies permission? These issues will become more important as use of electronic sources becomes increasingly widespread. As Managing Editor Andrew S. Chang '99 points out, "Some people, like Dean Harry Lewis, now prefer...
...Senate, have become impatient with his to-run-or-not-to-run act. They don't believe his intellectual quest is leading anywhere. "Is he doing this to improve the nation," asks one, "or just to improve himself?" He reminds them of another bigfoot Democrat who seemed to regard himself as better than the process--Mario Cuomo, the longtime New York Governor, now a lawyer in private practice. Plenty has changed since Cuomo's big moment: Paul Tsongas and Ross Perot have come and gone, and the political truth teller has become just another available package--one that journalists...