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...attempts to appoint a Prime Minister. Declared Beheshti haughtily: "The difficulty is that once a Prime Minister is approved by the Imam, then the Majlis [National Assembly] won't be able to vote freely on his appointment." Adding to his humiliation, Banisadr last week lost a lesser battle against Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, an Islamic judge who had sentenced more than 100 Kurdish rebels and officials of the Pahlavi regime to death. When Banisadr denied Khalkhali's right to exercise judicial functions as chief narcotics investigator, the cleric openly defied him, forcing the President to back down. Earlier...
Quincy House Master Charles W. Dunn also shirked responsibility by failing to represent the significant, though lesser, number of House residents who did not want the film screened in the place where they live. He should have taken a stand against the showing and encouraged fuller discussion of the issues involve. For example, neither Dunn nor any of the cinema guild's members considered that direct violence to a woman occurred during the production of Deep Throat--that Linda Boreman Marciano was actually raped in the film...
...months as plebes, West Point was engulfed in the worst cheating scandal in its 178-year history. As first-year students, the women were ineligible for the upperclass Electrical Engineering 304 course that produced the shared exam answers and the scandal. But last year their presence caused a lesser scandal-that one involving dating cadets and outlawed hazing practices-that put the Academy on the front pages of the newspapers again. To an outsider the female attrition rate in the Class of '80, a shade under 50%, seems terribly high. But the Academy points out that...
...weeks before Tito's death, a member of Yugoslavia's new collective leadership observed that "we will not look for a new Tito, because there isn't one, and there will be none for a long time to come." Indeed, it was hard to imagine any lesser mortal replacing the gregarious and vital Tito, who, almost without challenge, had ruled Yugoslavia for nearly 35 years and his country's Communist Party for 41. He was, for many years, the Kremlin's least favorite Marxist-a maverick who wrested Yugoslavia from Moscow's grasp...
Many city residents agreed--night after night parents from many of the city's elementary schools reported to the superintendent that the consensus in their neighborhoods was that Plan B was the lesser of three evils...