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...defendant for decades, the attempt to superimpose a rational screening mechanism before a case is sent to a full Administrative Board hearing is a step in the right direction. It does not unfairly disadvantage a purported victim of sexual assault or of any violation to insist on adequate threshold evidence to justify a trial. This is a step toward fair and rational justice and away from kangaroo courts...
...former chief of BMG Entertainment, Zelnick, 45, has turned his energies to cycling. In a bid to make the sport as popular in the U.S. as in Europe, his firm, ZelnickMedia, purchased a stake in Threshold, which produces international races. Threshold's first New York City race, in early August, will feature Lance Armstrong...
...provocation would rank with the mass murder that sparked the May face-off. Now more than ever, the world is counting on Musharraf the risk taker--who assures us his risks are calculated--to steer South and Central Asia from internal chaos to regional security, from the threshold of nuclear Armageddon to Pax Pakistania, from fundamentalist fervor to secular moderation...
...have never written a poem in my life. Poetry has always been to me a sacred threshold guarded by demons. I don't know why it is that some people ravished by great poetry spend their lives attempting to be poets, and some become literary critics. Poetry is not a process anyone has ever fully understood, but I suspect that it was for me almost from the start a kind of religion, and therefore I felt it was my business to receive it and appreciate it and understand it but not to try to duplicate...
...trial. But what we have witnessed means we would be delinquent if we didn't fight for real change. We are actually being more faithful than those who want to perpetuate the conditions for further decline. "Be not afraid," the current Pope said in his book Crossing the Threshold of Hope. "Of what should we not be afraid? We should not fear the truth about ourselves." The laity is not afraid of that difficult and deep discussion. Why are the bishops...