Word: begun
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THESE ARE GOOD--but there's something funny about the fact that Attorney General Edwin Meese has recently begun attacking the court for not paying attention to the original intention of the Framers of the Constitution. This is an attitude belittled by Tribe as a futile exercise in historical mind games; it is also important to Tribe that future justices not hold this illfounded ideal. Tribe is probably right on this count. His argument packs a lot of authority and logic, but Meese isn't listening. And why would...
Harvard has begun a drive to raise up to $20 million to invigorate its program in electrical engineering, a field which officials say has long been neglected at the University despite its increasing importance...
...Anderson's hearing. Members of the ad board, as well as those of the law school administration, did not know Granholm was present at the Lowell House protest. But after Granholm's testimony, in which she, as an eyewitness to the incident, defended Anderson, the ad board has begun disciplinary procedures against her as well...
Where the AIDS threat is acknowledged, governments have begun to take action. Thailand has proposed barring from the country foreigners who have the disease or are revealed by blood tests to be carrying the virus' antibodies. And Bangladesh, where no cases have yet been reported, is contemplating requiring foreigners entering the country to show evidence of a recent blood test for AIDS. Now that many Western countries have instituted mandatory testing of all donated blood, or have made plans to do so, whole categories of potential AIDS victims could be eliminated: hemophiliacs and others who receive blood transfusions...
Even before the hanging, violence had begun to boil up in other parts of the country. In Athlone, a colored (mixed-race) suburb of Cape Town, police and residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed...