Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bias, the Rehnquist Court may make the pundits positively nostalgic. Burger wrote a number of pro-press decisions during his tenure. In the 1980 case of Richmond Newspapers Inc. vs. Virginia, for instance, Burger held that under the First Amendment the press and the public have the right to attend most criminal trials. Rehnquist dissented, as he usually does in cases protecting press freedom...
Many secondary students have traditionally been attracted to Harvard's Summer School believing that a good performance would translate into admittance to the College. Despite the fact that 330 of Harvard's current 6000 undergraduates did attend the Summer School. Pihl downplays the connection. "We tell them it is not a back road way," says Pihl, adding, though, that "it doesn't hurt" if you perform well...
LAWRENCE WILDER, Virginia's first black Lieutenant Governor, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville: "Much has been written about my not being able to attend this university during my time. The fact that my son finished his undergraduate studies here and that my daughter is in this year's graduating class warms me with a poetic and an ironic justice. We have come to see that this country's insistence on right can make a change. It did so in the archipelagoes of the Philippines. It did so with the ravaged despotism in Haiti, and it will and must...
When Malkiat Singh Sidhu arrived in Canada from India to attend a family wedding, it never occurred to him to ask for police protection. "There was no worry," a relative explained. "We were celebrating a wedding. It was a time for rejoicing." But as Sidhu drove along an isolated logging road on Vancouver Island last week, he was shot and badly wounded by four men in another vehicle. Police, who later arrested four Canadian Sikhs, were treating the case as an international incident. The reason: Sidhu, 56, is the planning minister of the Indian state of Punjab and a party...
...friend looked over the list of the symposia and said that if you could attend all of them, it would be the equivalent of a college education," Stephenson says...