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Over the past week, students have staged a series of demonstrations across the country in opposition to the FLA. Protesters at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin took over administrative buildings, and PSLM briefly occupied Mass Hall on Thursday to protest the organization...
Gertrude and Claudius is engrossing enough on its own terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play. But those readers who know Hamlet will find Updike's novel an echo chamber of beguiling allusions. "You protest too much," her husband-to-be tells young Gertrude, a sentiment she will repeat during her life onstage. And the doom awaiting Updike's people lends their deeds a tragic cast...
...rate and should continue to do so. Better technology means you can install more sensitive alarm systems in your home and carry less cash on the street. The wane of Jack Daniels (and the rise of Evian) has yielded fewer drunken rages. Finally, although the prison-building boom sparked protest from those who insist we should spend the money on rehabilitation, no one can argue with cold reality: jails and prisons today lock up nearly 2 million people, and you simply can't knock over a 7-Eleven if you're reading Playboy in cell block...
...Student protest might rise and fall, but academic study won't and Harvard will return to this issue over and over again," he said...
...would abolish race and gender as factors in the college-admission process, and automatically grant the top 20 percent of all high school seniors admittance to state schools. The Florida State Board of Regents approved the governor's proposal by a vote of 12-0, a vote that sparked protest across the state...