Word: blankets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would like to take issue with J. Wyatt Emmerich's editorial "Harvard: Behind Closed Doors," published in your February 13, 1978 edition. First, a clarification should be made: the blanket on the Report on the Core Curriculum is temporary; as I understand it, the Core report will be made public as soon as it is formally introduced to the Faculty. The justification for the confidentiality was delivered to myself and other members of the Educational Resource Group (ERG) by Associate Dean Glen W. Bowersock; he explained that a breach of protocol might irritate Faculty members to such a degree that...
Those who wind up in Phong Saly are accused of specific crimes, although the charges may be as vague as being a "spy" or a "reactionary." Since Pathet Lao soldiers have been given blanket permission to charge just about anyone and no trials are necessary, many Laotians have been banished to Phong Saly for little reason...
...such a depressing environment. But members of the Friends Committee who have talked with prisoners in the blue rooms claim that the Department of Correction is not telling the whole story. The Friends say prisoners are often kept in the rooms without a stitch of clothing or even a blanket, for as long as six weeks at a time. They claim that the cells are often used to discipline unruly prisoners, and that inmates are often placed in the blue rooms simply because the prison is over-crowded...
...BROADER SCALE OF Cambridge politics, Danehy says he has a hard time supporting rent control because he believes it is unnecessary. "I don't think the city needs a blanket form of legislation," he says, adding that he knows of a number of developers who chose not to build in Cambridge because of the strictly enforced rent control law. Condominium conversion, another big issue in Cambridge this fall, is a development Danehy favors, because he says he likes to see people owning their own property. But condominium conversion, like skyrocketing rents, tends to drive out the city's elderly residents...
...gave him any business after that day in 1955 when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that Kanawha County schools would goddam well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a pistol under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out $250,000 insurance policy that would send his own son to Cambridge, six months being the required time period before suicide could be considered as a legitimate cause of death...