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...Michael Skolnik and Rebecca Chaiklin, follows the crusade of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and others to get Governor George Pataki and the state legislatures to change those laws. It?s a closeup lesson in political compromise - or, as many supporters of change see it, the humiliating status quo. "The Right, they?re calling it a jail break," says Simmons, while the Left, "they want total repeal." An hour into the film, Pataki and Simmons do cut a deal, but one that reduces the penalty from 15 to 9 years and still doesn?t allow judges to ameliorate the sentence...
...ambiguity of such a broad jurisdiction threatens to deprive enrolled students of their identities outside the context of their scholarship. Essentially, every action a student takes is colored by their status as a student at Harvard, more so than any other identity he or she might have. For example, students who engage in marijuana use over summer, not on campus, should not be disciplined by Harvard, nor should a student in the military who faces a court-martial face additional punishment from the College. Given that these infractions are unrelated to one’s status as a student, their...
...easier for students to lift passages from other sources. But it also makes it easier to catch the copiers.The creator and chief executive of TurnItIn, John Barrie, said his software is an indispensable tool.“All the other methods, such as proctors and honor codes, are the status quo. That is what people have been trying to do and they have failed. This is the only technology that works to stop student plagiarism,” said Barrie, who started TurnItIn in 1996. Barrie added that Harvard would benefit from TurnItIn. “Especially at schools like...
...Congressmen Are Such Easy Marks They may have power as a group, but their junior-varsity status can get them into trouble...
...military and diplomatic officials have claimed that radical cleric Muqtada Al Sadr - accused by the U.S. of sectarian reprisals in Baghad and elsewhere in southern Iraq - and the country's largest Shi'ite party have started to send in small numbers of their armed loyalists. The status of Kirkuk, officially to be decided in a referendum by the end of 2007, is one of the most contentious issues facing the new Iraqi government; though claimed by the Kurds, it is controlled by Baghdad, which is reluctant to part with its vast oilfields...