Word: processions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...finally throws the Noriega case out of court. They say that it's the government's fault anyway and that justice would be served best if the government were forced to admit it. But for the staff to disregard Noriega's rights and wish the circumvention of the judicial process is irresponsible...
Whether the case is already jeopardized or not, the fact remains that no judicial decision has been made. The case may be thrown out for other reasons, but CNN has no justification to tamper willingly with the process...
Athletics are just another extracurricular. The officials argue that athletes are treated the same in the admissions process as "French horn players" and those "likely to edit The Crimson." Then why does the admission office have an "athletic rating" separate from the "extracurricular rating"? Why do athletes score significantly lower in every other area of comparison? Although the officials are correct in pointing out that athletes' disproportionate admission rate alone does not prove that they receive preferential treatment, these figures...
...admissions office is an open book. The officials seemed positively shocked that we could claim to have "uncovered" the truth about legacies and athletes. They point to the "open" nature of the admissions process, meaning the number of officials involved and the amount of paper records generated. Our characterization of the admissions office as a "notoriously secretive bureaucracy" referred to the virtual impossibility of obtaining statistics from them, not to any paucity of paperwork in the office itself...
...neither falls into easy sentiment nor strains for cheap satire. Instead it grants the Bridges the dignity that they -- and most people of their time, place and (upper middle) class -- worked so hard to achieve and that is usually denied them in serious film and literature. In the process, it also grants its two stars the freedom to explore the couple's humanity...