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...flabbergasting. “Perhaps this might be acceptable in other less principled societies, where membership does not require a commitment to logic and reason in the spirit of open inquiry,” the UC Executive posits in its memorandum. “In our University community the standard is higher; we demand decision through discussion, and finality through debate.”Imagine, a Dean of the College with the temerity to take a decision without properly consulting his colleagues on the UC! The arrogance and inhumanity of it alone is appalling, especially in the broad and frothy...
...drying our drawers / on garbage fires / patches on our asses.” PUBLIC OFFENDERSThoughts of Janet Jackson’s $550,000 wardrobe malfunction were whizzing through my head as I looked up the regulations.According to the FCC, “an average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest…the material, taken as a whole, must lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” The Beats were poetry, and poetry had serious literary merit.“Phew...
...study makes this revised standard look all the smarter. "There is still a lot of controversy about the trigger," says Dr. Lynne Uhl, a transfusion specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. "But the growing data have reinforced the practice that it's O.K. to let the patient's hematocrit drop lower before transfusing...
...statistics were released as part of an annual campus crime report mandated by the Clery Act, a federal law named for a Lehigh University undergraduate who was raped and murdered in 1986. IVY LEAGUE THIEVES Harvard reports the numbers of burglaries and larcenies according to a slightly different standard than other schools, which leads to seemingly inflated statistics, said HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. According to Catalano, HUPD reports both burglaries—thefts committed while trespassing—and larcenies—thefts committed in public—even though the Clery act only requires them to report burglaries...
...person besides his religion. The way in which a veteran is remembered should not be limited solely to his religion. Although there certainly may be cost constraints to the VA’s ability to provide any and every emblem requested, the VA’s current standard of permissible emblems demands significant revision...