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...motion picture history” (according to the film’s tagline) and the cause of a national moral and legal debate. The culmination of this First Amendment contest was the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling that pornography be defined by “community standards?? and kept from the public arena except in cases of “redeeming social value...
...various occasions, Mansfield said he has spoken up “in defense of academic standards?? in response to policies enforced by liberals running the University. Mansfield said that rampant grade inflation, a chaotic curriculum and a profusion of easy courses are issues that he has criticized at Harvard...
...admit that being a perfectionist sometimes means that I have to sacrifice a lot in order to satisfy my own high standards??sleep, efficiency, maybe a little bit of sanity. But look what I can do! How many humanities concentrators (I’m in history) know how to use LaTeX, BibTeX, and PSTricks—professional software used in math and sciences—to typeset their term papers? (Microsoft Word is for amateurs.) How many people can just glance at a document and be able to tell that the text is Times Roman 11.5 point instead...
...polls on November 2nd. Mainstream news media need to break loose from the control of party hacks and spinsters and educate the public on what is really happening in the world. The burden of keeping the American public correctly informed should be borne by those entrusted with upholding journalistic standards??not a bunch of comedians writing for The Daily Show...
...Council also instituted admission standards??banding students by their Academic Index number—for every recruited athlete entering a school. This set up a bizarre incentive system where, theoretically, you could sacrifice one sport by only recruiting students in the top band, allowing you more flexibility in terms of recruiting for other sports...