Word: abandoned
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SACRAMENTO: An intransigent Theodore Kaczynski has forced his defense team to abandon plans to call mental health experts to testify during the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial, according to court papers filed late Monday. The move means that reams of pre-trial documents asserting that the Unabomber suspect is schizophrenic, and unable to form the intent to kill anyone, have been set aside...
...last few weeks, the staff of Annenberg Hall has been cracking down on students taking food to go. First-years attempting to take a sandwich out of the hall are being reprimanded and even asked to abandon their lunch at the door...
Mayer also says students are only questioned when they take large amounts of food to go, not a bagel or a banana. But the evidence in Annenberg seems to suggest otherwise. We urge the Annenberg staff to abandon its heightened militancy and follow the lead of the houses, where, thankfully, the policy goes largely unenforced, and the dining atmosphere is not antagonistic but civil. We also urge Harvard Dining Services to provide paper bags and containers so that students will have the flexibility to eat on the run. Given the almost nonexistent flexibility of the current meal plan...
...Some students might argue that they chose to remain with their old roommates because they knew what it was like to live with them. But this excuse becomes weak when we consider that most students who abandon their original roommates would give exactly the same reason. Others might claim inertia, but since when do students around here do things out of laziness...
...there are some problems with Cotton's formulation. For one, nowhere does Habermas say that we should abandon elected government. As he writes in "Further Reflections on the Public Sphere," "Discourses do not govern. They generate a communicative power that cannot take the place of administration, but can only influence it. This influence is limited to procurement and withdrawal of legitimation. Communicative power cannot supply a substitute for the systematic inner logic of public bureaucracies" (in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun...