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Catholic schools are famous for imposing the kind of discipline that a lot of public-school teachers can only dream about. Parochial schools are free to reject applicants with a history as troublemakers. "If a child has a disciplinary problem or problems with drugs or weapons, they can just say no on the spot," says Valerie E. Lee, co-author of Catholic Schools and the Common Good. They can also expel unmanageable students more easily than public schools, which must observe a range of legal niceties that don't apply to the private sector...
This potential danger, when combined with the generally acknowledged risk of pph, was enough to persuade the FDA advisory committee to reject Redux by a 5-to-3 vote on the question of safety when it first came up for consideration a year ago. But a few hours later, FDA official Dr. James Bilstad reopened the discussion after some committee members had left the meeting. Since there was no longer a quorum, a new meeting was called for two months later, in November...
Moreover, the doctors did all this in direct defiance of the human immune system, a formidable foe whose chief goal is to reject any and all foreign objects. It accomplishes this by deploying highly specialized cells trained to recognize interlopers, then hunt them down and kill them--even if doing so destroys the very life the donated organ was meant to save. The doctors believed the best weapons they had at their disposal were drugs designed to disable the immune system, if only partially. A mixture of azathioprine, prednisone and antilymphocyte globulin was the choice in the 1960s...
With or without Perot, a third party will never have it easy. The Republicans and Democrats are well entrenched, and only an overpowering reason would cause voters to reject them. So far they haven't found one, and G.O.P. pollster Ed Goeas doubts they will. "Independent voters are disaffected, and they don't pay enough attention," he says. "It always ends up back in a two-party system...
...embracing a balanced budget, however, the President did not reject the notion that government has an affirmative role to play in people's lives. Indeed, our analysis suggested that the 1994 election was not a rejection of government per se; it was a rejection of big, intrusive government. The President emphasized a view endorsed by well over two-thirds of the American people: a fiscally prudent government can still provide decent medical care for senior citizens and children, a high-quality educational system for young people and protection for the environment...