Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mobutu Sese Seko is accustomed to using a strong arm. When the Zairean President flew to France two weeks ago from Switzerland, where he had been convalescing after cancer surgery since August, his arrival naturally attracted photographers eager to film the elusive leader as he entered his villa at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Minutes later, bodyguards surrounded the journalists, snatched their film and threatened to start breaking limbs...
Reeves is determined to resist the government's strong-arm tactics. He has declared that he will go to jail before he sells out his students, claiming that the government is attempting to undermine academic freedom...
Recent events have brought to light a serious procedural defect in the internal policies of the Administrative Board's handling of disciplinary cases. The Administration has made it clear in the past that the Ad Board is not a judicial arm of the University, but should be considered educational in nature. To foster a sense of community and provide the proper scholarly atmosphere for a University, the Administrative Board has at its disposal an internal system of rules and punishments. As part of the Ad Board's standard policy, the nature and results of disciplinary cases arising based upon these...
However, the use of 'probation' does not coincide with the premise that the Ad Board is an educational arm of the University. A permanent mark on the student's record does not help the student learn that his/her behavior was improper, rather he or she is only conditioned against doing the same action again. Also, the rest of the University community remains oblivious to the results and has no way of learning not to participate in the improper actions...
...seat of retiring Senator Sam Nunn, Georgia voters were faced with a choice between a man who resembled Bob Dole and a man whose past was reminiscent of Bob Dole's. In Max Cleland they chose the latter, a Vietnam War hero who lost two legs and an arm in a grenade explosion and then rebuilt his life through public service. A spokesman for Republican loser Guy Millner complained during the campaign that Cleland, 54, was "running on biography." But a remarkable biography it is: a triple amputee who overcame depression and prejudice to become a Georgia state senator...