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...tough attendance policy has caused many members to be expelled from the council, requiring a special election in each case. "It does tend to wear on the vice-chair," said Victor G. Freeman '84, adding. "For this reason I think we ought to approve...
...There is no statistical significance in a 1.2 percent difference," said Victor Solo, assistant professor of statistics "Out of a sample of 662, the difference of seven individuals is of no real, practical consequence...
Kaufman noted that Editor Victor Navasky of the Nation had paraphrased most of what Ford wrote. Only 300 words of the 2,250-word article were taken verbatim from the manuscript. This brief borrowing of copyrighted material without the author's consent, said the court, was "fair use," a concept that allows limited quotation by journalists, critics, teachers and researchers. Dissenting Judge Thomas Meskill found a problem in the straightforward nature of the paraphrasing, however. "Copyright laws protect originality," he wrote. "They thus offer protection against a work that is substantially an unoriginal appropriation of the copyrighted work...
...surprise of Turkey's military rulers, a careful experiment in guided democracy veered slightly out of control last week. In the nation's first elections since the armed forces took power in 1980, the wrong man won-at least in the eyes of the military. The victor and new Prime Minister was Turgut Ozal, 56, a portly, easygoing former engineer whose conservative Motherland Party romped home with 45% of the 18.3 million votes and 211 seats in the 400-member Grand National Assembly. Said Hasan Esat Isik, a former Minister of Defense: "The Turkish people have shown they...
...governing junta and the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, Ortega declared with satisfaction that "the church would never side with any invaders." But it does not follow that the church, and the reluctant draftees it supports, will necessarily side with the government. At the Fonseca memorial, Sandinista National Directorate Member Victor Manuel Tirado-López issued an ominous warning. "Anyone who acts like a counterrevolutionary," he thundered, "will be dealt with accordingly. Even if he wears a clergyman's habit...