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...permitted to so carelessly meddle with the documents on which state and federal government are founded. Given that constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect a state’s entire population from reckless legal dynamism...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Equally Free | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Even Israel, which has taken a lead in raising the the alarm about the Iranian nuclear program, agrees that Ahmadinejad doesn't have the cattle to match his hat: "Iran is far from attaining the technology threshhold and this country is not close to getting it, contrary to statements by its leadership," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Iran Nuclear Compromise? | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...while a student convicted of felony assault would still technically qualify. The denial of educational opportunity carries such serious ramifications for a person’s future that the threshold for ineligibility should be both high—a felony conviction, for example—and consistent. (A higher threshhold would, of course, continue to allow colleges to enforce their own codes of conduct as they see fit.) On the whole, the AEP is indicative of a larger problem with the federal government’s War on Drugs. Rather than tie drug convictions to rehabilitation or education programs...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Because I Got High | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...unabashed sexuality to out-landish predictions about the future, all presented in a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mode. However, the play's overarching theme is the question of what the twentieth century holds in store for humankind. Watching this thought-provoking piece at the end of 1998, near the threshhold of the 21st century, is a most meaningful experience...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Drunk with Last Century's Greats: Picasso and Einstein's Favorite Dive Lives | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

Fred the Baker may be at the threshhold of his restful years, but his retirement yesterday caused anything but relaxation for Dunkin' Donuts employees across the country...

Author: By Ethan M. Katz, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Fred's Retirement Spurs Free Coffee at Dunkin' | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

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