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...first round of the admissions process to ensure that any who can, in the words of Professor of Government and former head of the admissions committee Gary King, "make it through the program" are admitted. The Weekly Standard charges that such a policy uses race as the sole determining factor in admission decisions, a violation of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the 1978 Bakke v. University of California Board of Regents case...
...risks are high. The $40 million film has no stars and has been critically drubbed. Its sole market value, beyond the Eszterhas-Verhoeven brand name, is its rating--the one most directors so fear that they will scissor their films (as Verhoeven did with Basic Instinct) to avoid getting it. Showgirls wears this stigma as a badge of honor and a sales pitch. "Leave your inhibitions at the door," the ads blare. Translation: Dirty movie ahead...
...sole source of support...
Even if Bosnia's division into rough halves seems to be accepted, there is still bitter disagreement over what specific areas will be allotted to each side. The peace plan the U.S. has been putting together suggests, for example, that the Bosnian government trade Gorazde, its sole, isolated enclave in the east, for control over all of the capital city of Sarajevo. The Bosnians insist they will never surrender Gorazde, and the Serbs, for their part, demand both Gorazde and a portion of the capital for their republic...
Mickey Sabbath could have been Big Bird. Instead he is spending his closing years in rural Massachusetts nursing resentments and his ragged individualism. His sole and meager support comes from his wife Roseanna, an Alcoholics Anonymous member who nearly drank herself to death for typically Rothian reasons: "because of all that had not happened and because of all that had." Chief among them were Sabbath's neglect and his affair with Drenka Balich, the lusty wife of the local Croatian innkeeper...