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Although Mahdi has relaxed enforcement of the laws, he has yet to void or replace them because they are supported by the fundamentalist National Islamic Front, an increasingly powerful member of his fragile ruling coalition. Early this month, the Sudanese Cabinet approved a new and stricter code of Islamic law, or Shari'a, but it has yet to be passed in parliament. In the meantime, the fighting has forced at least 500,000 southerners to flee to Khartoum. Each side in the civil war has accused the other of manipulating food shipments to famine victims as a weapon to gain...
...Shinagels have since appointed a house tutor to the position of fire marshal and assigned duties in case of fire. The latest committee recommendations urge stricter monitoring of annual fire drills in all houses...
...even Bennett's critics agree that American schools need further improvement. The past five years has indeed brought about tighter graduation requirements and stricter teacher standards backed by better pay. But most of the progress has come in affluent areas, where students are best equipped to respond to increased demands. "The reform movement has been most successful with those students who need it the least," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For inner-city students there has been little change. "Reforms were aimed at middle-class schools," notes Gary Orfield, an urban-education...
Forget the Reagan nonsense that requiring notification of plant closings would unnecessarily handicap American industry and endanger jobs. The provision would merely require that companies notify workers before laying off more than 500 of them, or one-third of their employees. Both West Germany and Japan have even stricter laws, and their competitiveness has not suffered...
...Princeton, 39 undergraduates were treated for alcohol poisoning the night of the initiation parties for the eating clubs. As a result, all of the 13 clubs have taken measures to control drinking at the clubs, ranging from alcohol education programs to stricter carding policies...