Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet-style, is relatively cheap and quick. Lawyers are not required in civil cases. The attorney's role is often played by the judge, who not only sets aside time to hear citizens' legal plaints but also prepares the person's case if the claim is valid. Courts hear disputes involving employment and alimony free of charge; in other civil actions, such as complaints about living quarters, the fee can be as low as 75?. Divorces, which are on the rise, if still less frequent than in the U.S. (.3 divorces per marriage, vs. America...
There are many reasons-some of them valid, some craven-for the aversion to a draft. The most basic is human nature: military service by definition is often distasteful, sometimes dangerous and occasionally fatal. Relinquishing a period of one's life to totalitarian noncoms is not exactly a month in the country. Lincoln's conscription in the Civil War caused homicidal riots all over the Union. But the American historical memory is not that long. The main reason for the aversion now is the wound of Viet Nam. Especially in an election year, politicians get sweating palms when...
...others will tell the truth about the Core Curriculum (designed with only a mite of reluctantly conceded student input), they will. Anyone who took a Core course this year knows that in methodology, content and design it was no different from the familiar general lecture course. The best valid claim Dean Rosovsky and the Faculty can make for the Core is that it encouraged professors to think a bit about their undergraduate courses, and a few even concocted new ones. That it took as massively orchestrated a public-relations effort as the Core to arouse them is the most damning...
...matter of academic freedom, as Bok argued in his final open letter, but a political controversy over an undeniably political appointment. And even if Bok's argument that he needs to defend conservative appointments today so he can defend Marxists against the Joseph McCarthys of the future were valid, the scarcity of Marxists at Harvard to begin with makes this a moot point. And the decision not to offer the respected Afro-Am scholar Eugene D. Genovese a professorship because of his "controversial"--read Marxist--background makes it a laughable point...
...response to all criticisms has been mixed. Although they began allowing high school students to see their test results--in an attempt to persuade state legislatures against passing "Truth in Testing" laws patterned after New York's recently enacted law--ETS officials insist that the tests remain a valid indicator of ability and aptitude...