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![]() Papers, please?Less than 60 years ago, American movie audiences would boo and hiss when the train carrying their cinematic heroes braked to a halt and was boarded by the sneering, uniformed "state police" of some totalitarian regime, demanding of each passenger in t urn: "Travel papers? Identity card?"Americans were appalled at the prospect of any government requiring its citizens to prove their identity -- and their justification for being where they were -- to any government off icial who chose to ask. FULL TEXT Setting prioritiesPutting aside the merits of Title IX, the federal legislation designed to achieve the amorphous concept of "gender equity" in college sports, Nevada universities still face potential lawsuits if they fail to comply with the law.Last week, Joe Crowley, the president of the University of Nevada, Reno, asked lawmakers for $1 million to support gender equity programs, most likely an increase in the number of scholarships for female athletes at the state's two universiti es. FULL TEXT |
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