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...recent years, the federal government has repeatedly flexed its financial muscle, threatening universities with a cutoff of federal funding if they refused to comply with federal guidelines on issues ranging from affirmative action to facilities for the handicapped...
...small things will probably determine the playoff winner. L.A. second baseman Dave Lopes' ex- plosive baserunning, well-executed cutoff throws, timely double plays--these are the rarely noted but critically important factors that are the stuff of championship teams...
Abortion funding Assuming the Supreme Court's 1973 decision on abortion was correct, the recent decision allowing cutoff of public funding is simply wrong. The state may consistently pay for an appendectomy while denying funds for cosmetic surgery, because that distinction does not involve any controversial moral views. But the supposed difference between an appendix removal and an abortion does depend on a moral position. The state has no business enforcing a moral judgment on a minority...
...surprise, it is Linda Ronstadt who has made herself one of the biggest individual rock draws in the world. Elton John, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Paul McCartney and Peter Frampton, among others, are bigger. Then comes Linda, the chicklet who shows up onstage wearing peasant blouses, cutoff jeans, subteen knee socks and track shoes to sing Love Is a Rose and That'll Be the Day. She is dead serious about her music, but the superstar nonsense amuses her; once she kidded her Moonbeam McSwine reputation by posing for an album cover in a barnyard with a couple...
...approach to a Third World policy. Human rights are stressed: "The United States should not in any way abet repressive actions or allow itself to be associated with brutally repressive governments." The report cautions against any attempt to dictate the form of Latin governments, but it strongly urges a cutoff of military aid to countries like Chile whose ruling regimes flagrantly violate civil liberties...