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...Until the 70s, New York state had one of the country's stricter film censorship boards. And although Mona and School Girl were shown without incident in Manhattan theaters, the success and attendant news coverage of Deep Throat required police action. (Though the cops interviewed in Inside Deep Throat are among its most receptive critics. "It was stunning, testifies John Goodman of the NYPD. "The cinematography, for a porn movie, was very good. The movie was funny. We knew that this was something different.") On the order of Mayor John Lindsay, the police closed down the film, and in March...
...exclusive TIME poll, more than half the respondents say there's too much violence, profanity and sex on TV, but most say they aren't personally offended by it and don't want that content banned. Slightly more than half believe the FCC should be stricter, but 66% say it overreacted to Janet Jackson. Yet what may seem like confusion--or just hypocrisy--may also be something too often missing from the indecency debate: subtlety...
...think it’s important to be consistent. We shouldn’t make requirements stricter simply because of the nature of the club,” Chadbourne said...
...course, University Hall can always decide to build a five-star dining hall with plenty of seating space in a centrally located student center. But until pigs fly, practical, permanent solutions, not temporary stop-gaps, are needed to fix dining hall overcrowding. Stricter dining hall restrictions are not solutions; they simply pass the buck along to the next farthest house from the Yard. If Quincy follows Adams’ lead and restricts inter-house and first-year dining privileges, overcrowding in its dining hall will go down only to rise in another. Will Lowell be next...
Some 65 officials from 14 states gathered in St. Louis, Mo., in December to push for stricter laws, despite opposition from retailers and drug companies defending the $1.8 billion cold-remedy market. According to Lonnie Wright, director of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, Schedule V reclassification has "revolutionized" meth enforcement in the state, with busts dropping from more than 100 a month in 2003 to about 20. The rate could fall further in the next few months as every Oklahoma pharmacy gets a new computer program showing whether a customer has recently bought pseudoephedrine products elsewhere. "Simply by putting this...