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...make the difficult decision of which responsibility to favor. Should we lean in favor of the former by allowing students to segregate themselves, to live with others who share a similar heritage or personality, as so often happens in our larger society? Or should we take the path of stringent morality, in which we try to create a more just and equitable society by forcing students to come to terms with individuals different from themselves...
Some students, however, said the Financial Aid Office failed to inform them of the stringent deadline and did not give them the help they needed to settle their term bills on time...
Patti Davis, former first lady Nancy Reagan's rebel daughter, criticized her mother's stringent rules on how many cookies she could eat in her 1992 autobiography The Way I See It. And actress Lana Turner's daughter bemoaned her status as "hopelessly ugly" in her mother's eyes...
...anyone interested in dance, Croce's ability to inflame does not come as a surprise. For the past 22 years at the New Yorker, she has written stringent criticisms that though models of logic and clarity, can also sting. A devotae of George Balanchine, whose biography she is writing, she has unmercifully chastised Peter Martins, his successor as artistic director of the New York City Ballet, when she felt he was flouting the master's style. Her judgments have resonated through the ballet world...
That uprising isn't the only one. Driven equally by ideological verve and concerns about the voters back home, the freshmen are also threatening to walk away from a Mexican bailout supported by Republican leaders in both houses; to force the most stringent version of term limits, over the objections of party elders; and to push for a repeal of the assault-weapons ban, a huge fight the Speaker doesn't want just yet. ``Some of these guys just have no fear,'' says an awestruck Republican House veteran. ``Some of them look at us like we're the problem...