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...League linebacker was subsequently stripped of his football captaincy and barred from playing on the football team. He will have to perform 50 hours of community service, complete an anger-management program and his current alcohol-treatment plan, and stay out of trouble until June of next year.But the blot will remain on his record, and supporters wonder how a case with an uncooperative victim could have carried on.AGAINST HER WISHESJury selection was just days away. But the judge called the parties into a pretrial conference two days earlier in an unpredictable move and effectively dismissed the charges.And in cases...
Meanwhile, as dearly as Skip Gates may miss his friend Cornel, for msot of Harvard’s current student body, the professor is little more than a framed photo and a blot on Summers’ tenure. The last class that remembers his powerful presence on campus graduated this past June, taking his memory with them, for better or for worse. Even though his portrait still hangs, the mark he left on Harvard Af-Am may soon be obscured by the department’s new direction and influx of new faculty...
That impact, he says, along with two other major hits by either comets or asteroids around the same time, threw enough soot (from the resulting conflagrations) and debris into the atmosphere to blot out the sun for months. It was this catastrophe 38 million years ago, he says, that may have caused the great Eocene-Oligocene extinction, which was similar to the one that many scientists believe killed the dinosaurs 27 million years earlier...
...lurid allegations about kidnapping, a vast system of espionage involving Chinese nationals in Australia, and the harassment of Falun Gong, seem out of kilter with a China making its reputation on the fecundity of its factories and new millionaires. The wonder of China's economic progress has tended to blot out other considerations about that country's present. Chen has restored some of the balance; not by making China out to be an ogre, but by reminding Australians exactly what China is and how the Beijing elite is trying to orchestrate its transition...
...number of detainees in U.S. custody is currently about 3,000. (The interim Iraqi government also houses prisoners there.) No date has been set, but the military would like to close the facility altogether, officially to avoid more insurgent attacks but, what's more, to wipe out the blot that is Abu Ghraib...