Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christopher L. Goff, a third-year student, says, "People generally agree that the requirement is a failure. It's very boring. All it does is teach the Canon of Ethics, a set of rules required for the bar exam, Theoretically, it's a good idea to teach ethics, but I don't think the course was worth two credits...
Wallenda started to crouch. A gust of wind suddenly jarred him. Then, as the horrified crowd watched, he started to fall, very slowly at first. He reached out for the cable with one hand, but he was still holding the balancing bar and could not get a grip on the cable. Down he went, still holding onto the pole. Ten stories below, he landed on the roof of a taxi and bounced off onto the sidewalk. At the hospital, he was pronounced dead of massive internal injuries...
...November visit to Jerusalem. Weizman and Sadat have similar family tragedies: Sadat's brother Atef was killed in the 1973 October War; and Weizman's son Shaul, now 26, a former paratrooper, suffered head injuries from a sniper's bullet while stationed in one of the Bar-Lev fortresses...
...That first trial was postponed when a defendant announced that brigatisti were responsible for the assassination of Genoa's chief public prosecutor and two assistants just the day before. Last April, as the trial was to resume, brigatisti fatally shot Fulvio Croce, 76, president of the Turin Bar Association, whose appointment as Curcio's defense counsel made him a "collaborationist of the regime." Jurors suddenly found excuses not to serve, and dozens of lawyers refused to act as defense attorneys...
...this list of the nicest places on the Cape fall into enemy hands. Last summer one of Boston's weekly papers called my bar "Cape Cod's most interesting bar;" there have been lines ever since, and I cancelled my subscription to that paper. However, I am confident this article won't destroy my favorite places, at least not until summer--realize, the Cape just had a foot of snow...