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...continue their education, limiting their opportunities and standing in the way of their personal growth. Federal financial aid is not, however, an absolute right. But there are already standards for receiving federal financial aid. Students must be admitted to college in order to receive aid, with eligibility contingent upon continued enrollment. Therefore, students must meet the academic and behavioral standards of the educational institutions they attend in order to qualify for federal funding. If Congress wishes to set additional standards (beyond enrollment) for recipients of federal financial aid, such standards must be fair, sensible, and consistent. There exists no plausible...
MacFarlane’s humor has put some on edge in the past. FOX executives declined to air one episode of MacFarlane’s show, entitled “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” in 2000, presumably because some of the jokes could be viewed as anti-Semitic. The network finally aired the episode in December...
...honesty, we probably would have gotten an at-large bid if we hadn’t qualified,” Porter said. A Harvard co-ed team which has hovered around the top of the rankings all year would most likely have been looked kindly upon by the selection committee, which selects its nationals participants much in the same way that committees select at-large bids for their NCAA tournaments in sports like basketball and lacrosse.The committee had little sympathy for the Crimson, however, in its scheduling of nationals. This year’s event begins during Harvard?...
...pushed the driver) in James’ defense in order to cease any further attack from taking place,” Lane wrote in an e-mail. “Again, we are both sorry for our part in this incident and how much negative attention it has brought upon our football team...
John Mackey is such a libertarian. His social conscience leads him to encourage consumers to purchase environmentally sound products, but he does not wish to impose that choice upon them by force. In fact, libertarians can hold any personal moral view without believing that their stance should be forced upon others. Libertarians can support unions, or workers’ collectives, or a stringent set of religious beliefs, and they can hope that others think the same way, but they seek to persuade, never to coerce...