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While Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth has promised to crack down on drug abuse in the major leagues, he has also maintained that his intention was to "get rid of drugs, not players." Last week Ueberroth achieved his goal with deftly wrought penalties against 21 admitted or suspected drug users. The commissioner ordered the conditional one-year suspension of seven admitted abusers, stipulating that they would be allowed to compete if they donated 10% of their salaries to drug-prevention programs, worked 100 hours in drug- related community-service projects over each of the next two years, and submitted to random...
Creating a separate discipline for the study of the role of women in history may not get rid of the male bias. As the U.S. Supreme Court has noted in another context, separate is rarely ever equal...
Eisert's committee oversees student complaints and suggestions for dining. "We also say things like 'Get rid of pig and fish night.' We are the reviewers of the new items...
Moral crusaders should never be ashamed of the truth, because the truth will always work in their favor. The fight to rid society of pornography is a noble one, but it will only be won when and if enough Americans are forced to confront their own sexism...
Central to the motivation of both men was General Ver, who had effectively appropriated their functions within the military and the Cabinet. The U.S. has long pressured Marcos to get rid of Ver, who last December was acquitted along with 25 others of conspiracy charges in the August 1983 assassination of Ninoy Aquino at Manila International Airport. Marcos announced last week that Ver would retire on March 1 and Ramos would become "acting" head of the armed services. But most military and government officials speculated that Ver would still keep his more powerful position as director of the civilian intelligence...