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With this sanction from public opinion, Reagan's "age factor" became a big news story. ABC's Sam Donaldson predicted that to win the second debate, Reagan had only not to drool. By relieving anxieties about his health, Reagan "won" the second debate while losing again on points; the proof was that he stayed high in the polls...
...pyramid is the so-called cupola, or commission of ten. Headed by the chief of the Palermo provincial council, the cupola is the body that settles jurisdictional conflicts and attempts to coordinate all activities outside Sicily. Dominated by the more powerful of the clans, the commission should sanction the murder of an important judge or politician, or approve the assassination of an uncooperative Mafioso in New York. Sometimes this system works. But on numerous occasions, says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist on the staff of the Italian legislature's anti-Mafia commission, it does not. In fact, Arlacchi warns against...
Despite Brustein's comment, of course, a lack of academic arts offerings didn't seem to deter dedicated Harvard and Radcliffe students in the past. Without University sanction, students founded the Pierian Sodality (now the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra), the Glee Club, and a multitude of other art performance groups...
...Reagan Administration's policy of denying funds for family planning to countries that sanction abortion is hypocritical and pathetically shortsighted. Abortions will be decreased only by providing these nations with better methods for preventing conception...
...ease the problem of overpopulation in the Third World, federal law bans the use of U.S. funds to finance abortions overseas. The Reagan Administration is now considering an even more stringent policy: withholding family-planning assistance from any population-control program funded by governments or private organizations that sanction abortion as a method of birth control. The plan was hailed by pro-life groups, but it has perplexed foreign aid experts, State Department officials and population control groups...