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...every bit as seriously as the Ad Board,” says Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, referring to the standing committee of faculty members that handles cases of undergraduate academic misconduct. “Normally we’d rescind the offer of admission...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Punishing Its Own | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...DIED. JACK NICHOLS, 67, pioneering U.S. gay-rights activist who helped organize the movement's first rally outside the White House, in 1965, and successfully lobbied the American Psychiatric Association to rescind its classification of homosexuality as a mental illness, which it did in 1973; of leukemia; in Cocoa Beach, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

France and Britain have lodged diplomatic protests with Pretoria criticizing the new curbs on press freedom. So have most major news organizations. CBS News Anchorman Dan Rather, who is chairman of the freedom of information committee of the Television and Radio Working Press Assoc., urged Botha to rescind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Uncertain Limits | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...exchange was tense but predictable. Meeting with congressional leaders last week, Ronald Reagan reiterated his support for the controversial Gramm-Rudman amendment to balance the budget in five years. The President also insisted that Gramm-Rudman did not give Congress the right to rescind its earlier agreement to increase defense spending by 3% above inflation in the next two fiscal years. As lawmakers tried to explain that both the Senate and the House versions of deficit reduction call for deep cuts in military spending, Reagan gruffly insisted that a right-minded Congress could indeed achieve a balanced budget without sacrificing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Default: Congress delays a showdown | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...House surely produced great theater, but are the politicians just talking tough? Committee members repeatedly threatened to rescind baseball's antitrust exemption, which has been on the books for more than 80 years, if the sport doesn't adopt harsher drug rules. But some experts think Congress is bluffing. "Why would they do that?" asks Chicago-based sports-marketing consultant Marc Ganis. "It's an arrow in their quiver to say they'll pull it. If they did, what would they then have to hold over baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hall of Shame | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

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