Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Counter-demonstrators pestered every major demonstration of the sixties; at D.C., there aren't many, but they're of a different, more virulent breed. Members of the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP), a group which members say owes its "inspiration" to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, began...
The subject of these remarks is France's first great experiment in open admissions education, the "University of Paris VIII," better known as Vincennes because it is housed in the former royal hunting forest at the eastern end of the Paris Metro line. Even when Vincennes opened in 1970...
Let's see, did they leave anything out? They have Johnson and Nixon, and the draft lottery (and the anxiety it caused) on television, a confrontation in the Harvard Yard between cops and students, liberated women taking karate lessons and putting on antimale skits, a bookstore being converted into...
Most police departments give a more positive view of women cops than Remmington does, but the men in the ranks have their doubts. A 1977 study of the Detroit police found that the men consider women cops liabilities in dangerous situations because of "their physical size." A Philadelphia study concluded...
An argument in favor of women cops is that they are better than men in talking people out of violence. Says Oakland, Calif., Police Sergeant Earl Sargent: "Just as you don't have to teach a man how to fight-they grow up playing war and cowboys-in the...