Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, it does not always work that way; authorities claim only a "modest success" so far. Of the 58 "clients," as they are called, 18 have either disappeared, committed new crimes or bent the rules sufficiently to be sent back to prison. Supervisor Johnson believes that it was one of them who burgled the Johnson apartment, leaving an anonymous thank-you note. The program will now try to improve results by dropping random selection. Meanwhile, there is special pride in the thief who last month became the center's first graduate. Now completely on his own, he is working...
Just when the boys are most full of self-pity, beginning to wonder whether they have any kind of claim to each other's friendship and support, the coach steps in with his old pep talk. He plays a recording of the last ten seconds of the big game, and as the boys sit up and listen the bitterness begins to fade. Then the bad feelings disappear altogether as the coach plays the old school fight song and everyone stands up to sing...
Unfortunately, the SLA fails on both counts. The Oakland community's overwhelming satisfaction with Foster belied any attempt to claim mass support for his assassination. Though not a radical, he enjoyed the endorsement of black and white community organizers alike. Indeed, the behavior of the SLA in killing Foster and kidnaping Hearst led at least one black spokesman in California to question whether the SLA was not simply exploiting DeFreeze as a figurehead. Colston Westbrook, a Berkeley linguistics instructor who met DeFreeze through the Vacaville Black Culture Association, said in April, "I think the honkies are calling the shots. [DeFreeze...
...political objectives and the state of California and national politics that their strategy would not only fail but jeopardize the political position of the Left, in general. Such gross political aad moral miscalculation--especially for a group supposedly committed to the SLA's announced ideals--totally undermines any claim that might be made for the moral legitimacy of their activities. If we take the SLA's program seriously and acknowledge, in some sense, the righteousness of its discontent, the sincerity and personal suffering of the SLA's members still do not justify their adventurism or the real and potential suffering...
Some students, in fact, have found that Northeastern has not lived up to their expectations. They claim that the faculty is not as accessible as they were led to believe and that the law school has grown beyond a workable size. Others find the first-year program of intensive study, which the faculty claims is the most rigorous in the nation stifling. One student, who had travelled and worked as a mailman and substitute teacher before deciding to go to Northeastern, was attracted to the school because, he says, "I feared I wouldn't like studying, and even...