Word: contact
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...Last year, the New York Times reported that Harvard was lowering academic standards to unacceptable levels for student athletes and potentially violating NCAA rules in its recruiting, accusing Amaker of improper contact with one recruit in a grocery store and an assistant coach of recruiting a player prior to being officially hired by the school. These claims, minor violations if they had been true, were rejected by the Ivy League after an investigation...
...Hague Breaking the Ice with Iran Almost two weeks after Barack Obama spoke to Iran in a video message, special envoy Richard Holbrooke met with Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister on the sidelines of an international conference on Afghanistan. The brief tête-à-tête marked the first such contact with Tehran since Obama took office...
...ordering the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. "It is more likely that Prabhakaran will get his children out of Sri Lanka to provide inspirational support in the future. The entire family of [Prabhakaran's wife] Madhivadini is in Denmark, and the children will have strong contact with them...
...distance between the audience and the actors and highlighting, intentionally or not, the gap in place and time between the two. Yet with the audience flanking either side of the stage (the show is set in the center of the Mainstage), even if the actors are not making direct contact with the audience, viewers can see others’ reactions and feel some sense of community in the theatre. The overall strength of the cast’s performance also helped forge a connection between those on and off stage. Scene I opens with Rachel E. Flynn...
...fulfill their peacetime commitments and decommission their weapons) are ruling out a return to violence. "The situation has the potential to deteriorate if lives are lost or if civilians were to suffer injury," says John Kyle of the paramilitary-linked Progressive Unionist Party. "But we've been in regular contact with loyalist groups over these past weeks and nobody is talking about retaliation...