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...over the past two years, Wheaton College in Massachusetts and Goucher in Maryland have abandoned the battle and gone coed. Russell Sage in New York was considering conversion last spring, but after completing a 15-month study of other colleges that had gone coed, administrators decided not to tamper with 71 years of tradition...
...outer lens shells of Composition B; the detonation waves separately bulged, encountered inclusions of Baratol, slowed, curved, turned inside out, merged to a common inward-driving sphere; the spherical detonation wave crossed into the second shell of solid fast Composition B and accelerated; hit the wall of dense uranium tamper and became a shock wave and squeezed, liquefying, moving through; hit the nickel plating of the plutonium core and squeezed, the small sphere shrinking, collapsing into itself, becoming an eyeball...
Those uncomplicated ingredients have at last brought them commercial success, and neither Merchant nor Ivory seems eager to tamper with the recipe. Merchant, 50, is a hustler who grew up in Bombay, India's film capital. Coming to the U.S. in 1958, he studied business at New York University and made a short, which won an Academy Award nomination. Ivory, 58, is a shy Oregonian who attended film school at the University of Southern California and made a short about Indian miniature paintings. Merchant liked it; they talked, became partners and headed for India...
...sent to all alumni. That letter criticized the campaign of three graduates running for the board by petition and on a pro-divestment platform. A blatant attempt to influence the election elicited strong protests from alumni. Yet, not only did the University officials defend their misguided attempt to tamper with an election, Derek Bok failed to present his whole involvement in the decision to send the letter. Not until the press confronted him with the facts did he acknowledge that he actually asked Joan Bok to send the letter...
Such "infamous" policy decisions, declared Meese, amply prove that some < judges have been using the Constitution "as a charter for judicial activism on behalf of various constituencies." The proper role for the judiciary, he said in a climactic scold, is to guard the Constitution, not tamper with...