Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduates, the advice from their distinguished elders tended to be far more somber than lighthearted. The dominant topics were the nuclear arms race, the decline of Western values, the nation's economic troubles and the dangerous tensions abroad. Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was awarded honorary degrees in absentia at Providence College in Rhode Island, Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield College in Massachusetts. Said Monsignor George G. Higgins at Providence College commencement ceremonies: "You [Walesa] are an electrician whose light cannot be obscured by the darkness of despotism. You are a free man whose spirit cannot...
...Office and go to members of the class of '86 as recommended reading Dean's Office occupants explain the list is not firm because the roster of Freshmen Week speakers has not yet been finalized. So there seems to be a correlation between those two vestiges of Harvard absentia...
...hours after taking a Chemistry exam in absentia, freshman Dan Watson won the competition in the 10-meter platform event Saturday at the U.S. Indoor Diving Championships in Milwaukee...
...nearby hospital in serious condition after sustaining the karate blow in the hallway. All but Ciucci and Frascella, whose father is a respected Padua doctor, were well known to antiterrorist specialists. Indeed, Savasta and Libera were recently convicted in a Cagliari court and sentenced to prison in absentia for several bank robberies and their involvement in a 1980 Shootout with police. In the apartment, police found large numbers of Red Brigades documents and the two slogan-filled posters that Dozier was forced to hold up for photos released during his captivity. The Red Brigades flag that Dozier stood before...
...could receive the death penalty. There was also no doubt that Agca had been convicted of murdering a Turkish newspaper editor, that he had escaped during psychiatric observation with the connivance of more than a dozen members of the Turkish armed forces, that he was sentenced to death in absentia and that he had also killed a man who informed...