Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftermath of his overthrow, Nicholas told friends that Ross didn't like his independence of mind. Others say the troubles stemmed largely from personality clashes between the ostensibly equal chieftains. "There are not two people more mismatched," says a top executive. In Ross, he maintains, "you have a dreamer and a visionary, a plunger and schemer"; in Nicholas "a guy who's small and risk averse. You could hardly get a yes out of him. He loved the status quo." While Ross is generally described as a charmer, Nicholas "is not a likable guy," says a director. Some executives...
...year threw a spotlight on the use of excessive force by police. The number of reports continues to remain high across the country after the furor that followed that attack. Female officers have been conspicuously absent from these charges: the independent Christopher commission, which investigated the L.A.P.D. in the aftermath of the King beating, found that the 120 officers with the most use- of-force reports were all men. Civilian complaints against women are also consistently lower. In San Francisco, for example, female officers account for only 5% of complaints although they make up 10% of the 1,839-person...
...true that the University "handled the event extraordinarily well" to the extent that there was no violence and that both speaker and questioners were heard inside Sanders Theatre. But it remains to be seen how well the University, and its students, will "handle" the aftermath of the Jeffries speech...
...microphones will they quiz the Westerners about U.S. policy in the gulf war. Why did the U.S. stop short of taking Baghdad? they ask. Why didn't George Bush make sure Saddam Hussein was killed? They say the Iraqi people did all they could to overthrow Saddam in the aftermath of the war, but they were so brutally crushed that they could not and would not try again...
Given that the struggle was precisely about scholarship and the language of scholarship, it is no wonder that the campus newspaper would seek to discuss the issue and it is no wonder that Thernstrom might feel threatened. Yet in the aftermath of his attacks on The Crimson, the effect of shouting "p.c." has been less speech and not more; it has forced students into silence, and merely amplified the professorial bully pulpit that the professor, by profession, already possessed...