Word: claiming
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Attorneys for the two students in the current challenge attempted to avoid this problem by claiming that the University had violated its contract with students. But on Tuesday a federal judge rejected the claim that suspending the students after they had completed their graduation requirements constitutes contract violation...
Maybe. But maybe Al Gore can't compartmentalize as neatly as his boss. How can he share in Clinton's public successes when he's been busy denouncing the President's personal failings, staking his claim as a family man and promising to protect the dignity of the office? The stories about a Clinton-Gore feud have been circulating for more than two weeks, to the point that the President had to spend the better part of his press conference last week denying them. To students of royal families, all the signs of marital strain are there. The couple manage...
Watching the tape of me simultaneously trying to impress MTV producers and score with a shorn woman was the second most embarrassing moment of my life. The first, according to my application, was getting drunk in high school and badmouthing the sexual talents of my already graduated girlfriend, a claim that was posted on the school message board the next day. Her most embarrassing moment, of course, is happening right...
...former slaves. Such black entrepreneurship is a beacon for the travel industry and the economy. "We can benefit by using our own culture for tourism," says Paula Gumede, who runs an agency that takes visitors on tours of Cape Town's black townships. "People at grassroots level need to claim tourism for their...
...shouldn?t Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif claim victory in Kashmir? After all, Slobodan Milosevic called his ignominious exit from Kosovo a victory, too. And, sorry Mr. Sharif, but it looks like you'll have as hard a time as the Serb leader in convincing your electorate that they have anything to celebrate in the withdrawal of their forces from the Indian side of Kashmir agreed to by Pakistan on Sunday. Pakistan?s prime objective in occupying strategic peaks in Indian territory, says Nawaz, was to "internationalize" its claim on the disputed territory. It was also...