Word: bans
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...best fascistic face. Police are out in force; ID's are checked at doorways; gates to houses are locked. But perhaps the most stinging of the College's package of "added security precautions" is the prohibition of kegs in the Houses. For the administration, the ban represents a virtual guarantee against the kind of campus-wide party that is liable to get out of hand when Harvard students bring along thousands of their prep school friends. And to somewhere near three-quarters of Harvard students, the absence of large parties means the closing off of one of the more promising...
Forthright and irreverent, Williams emerged from her farmhouse to greet the press in jeans, a tank top and bare feet. She shares the $1 million award with her six-year-old coalition, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which has helped persuade nearly 100 governments to support a treaty to end the production, sale and stockpiling of land mines and to clean up existing minefields around the world. The explosive devices, which can cost as little as $3 apiece and are strewn haphazardly in places like Angola, Cambodia and Bosnia, are responsible for killing or brutally maiming some...
...even as the White House reaffirmed its "rock-solid" position against participation in the accord, Williams was heartened by the news that the once recalcitrant Russia would support the international land-mine ban. The treaty, to be signed in Ottawa in December, will go into effect after 40 nations have ratified...
...room," she said. "It was Utopia." The numbers grew quickly. The fruits of her labor resulted in the ICBL, an alliance of more than 1,000 anti-land mine groups. Early on, a participant predicted that it would take at least 30 years for a land-mine ban to be enacted...
What started the fire? The Grammy Award-winning singer had written a letter to the Miami Herald in support of a volunteer who was kicked off a Metro-Dade arts board. Peggi McKinley was fired for saying officials should end their ban on Cuba-based artists performing at county-sponsored events. As a result of the law, the French-based organizers of a major Latin American and Caribbean music conference had threatened to abandon Miami as a future venue, a move that would cost the city millions of dollars. "As an American," Estefan wrote, "I am frightened...