Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of Brown University students is demanding an explanation of a racial imbalance in the school's first-year dorms discovered earlier in November by members of the campus chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...course, cracking down on the gun industry is easier to write about than to achieve. Passing meaningful gun-control legislation in American society has proved nearly impossible. Politicians who attempt to strengthen gun laws only end up strengthening their opponents' wallets. In the face of such a formidable lobby, civil law suits are the government's only option to control the flow of guns. Lawsuits allow politicians to appear tough on crime while in reality passing the buck onto the court system. They hope that targeted companies will lose large enough verdicts so that the monetary interests of manufacturers fall...
Oxford honorary degrees are usually reserved for Oxford graduates, and since both Levin and Rudenstine attended the university as Rhodes scholars, they are considered "Oxonians." Each was named Doctor of Civil...
...they fight other countries--why do they attack the people?" And while the police and the army were booed and pelted with debris, the crowd cheered the arrival of the marines--who had fraternized with protesters who forced out Suharto in May--thus prompting wild visions of civil war. On Saturday, as thousands of protesters headed for the Assembly building, at least 80 uniformed marines marched with them. Rumors that the military had turned upon itself proved premature, but uncertainty about the loyalties of various factions remained...
...story to the tabloids; no U.K. book or movie deal was proposed either before or after Judge Young's earlier edict banning that kind of profiteering (an order which was, in any case, legally unenforceable across the pond). And there are plenty of other distinctions between O.J.'s civil trial and Woodward's, not least of which is that the au pair was actually convicted the first time around -? albeit of manslaughter rather than murder. A jury may decide she's been through enough. She is also not required to appear in person. There is one similarity with the former...