Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condemned men are all in mufti," a Lagos radio correspondent announced crisply, giving a running account of the executions on Bar Beach. "Most of them look sober. Some manage to smile at newsmen." Religious confessions, Christian and Moslem, were received by two priests and a mallam (a Moslem religious leader). While the throng looked on, the 15-man firing squad opened up. The shooting lasted ten minutes, as one by one the coup plotters slumped to the blood-soaked sand...
...seems to me that the Crimson owes its readers, and the participants in such a campus event, a healthy measure of professionalism. Surely, with this in mind, you'll send a Classics major from North House next time--she could undoubtedly give a better account than your zealous Mr. Gil. Paul Crowley...
Both Graham and Marquand also said they would like to see the Faculty take into account only graded courses outside a student's concentration rather than all courses outside the concentration in the requirement for honors degrees...
...result, An American Family in Moscow, is the seven Schecter's account of their experiences in the Soviet capital from 1968 to 1970 while the father, Jerrold Schecter, was a time correspondent there. Unlike the average American family in the Soviet Union, which retreats into its own artificial Western womb, the Schecter family tried to immerse itself in Soviet life as fully as possible. Now six years later, reclining leisurely in his Claverly suite and surrounded by posters of Lenin and other Russian souvenirs, Steve Schecter reminisces about his days in Moscow...
...article he calls "so full of inaccuracies it's ridiculous." And to combat the charges he has instructed students and faculty to read a copy of a speech he delivered at a Seattle luncheon without noting that several of the more controversial statements reported in the Times account originated from a late afternoon question-and-answer session Kilbridge held before a different audience. Such action, hardly designed to build a bond of trust, underlines a disturbingly pervasive lack of communication--evident in remarks Kilbridge and GSD students traded in a meeting last week. Similarly, the uproar over the Times story...