Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both The Crimson and The Globe reported, Mlot-Mroz was pushed down the steps of University Hall, as participants shouted "No Nazis!" One protester destroyed Mlot-Mroz's sign, and Harvard police frisked the counter demonstrator and forced him to leave the Yard...
When Andrew Sokolow approached a United Airlines counter in Hawaii five years ago to begin a flight to Miami, he aroused immediate suspicion. First he looked and acted nervous. Then he plunked down $2,100 from a bulging wad of $20 bills to buy round-trip tickets for himself and a companion. He and his friend did not check their luggage but chose to carry it on board. And, as investigators discovered, Sokolow used an assumed name and stayed in Miami only 48 hours. In short, his actions matched those in the behavior profiles used by the Drug Enforcement Administration...
...program, however, has met some criticism, particularly from students and higher education officials. One major criticism suggests that the proposed shift in student aid allocations runs counter to the ideals established by the Civil Rights movement, which allowed everyone to have an equal opportunity to afford college. Daniel Baer concludes in a Crimson editorial that "the Nunn bill would do more to upset equality of educational opportunity than anything since Plessy v. Ferguson...
...goal is to "combat" critical views in jurisprudence. Newly appointed Dean Clark also spoke scathingly of Professor Derrick Bell's sit-in protest against suppression of critical views (Bell is one of two tenured Black professors at the Law School). Said Clark, "This is a university--not a lunch counter in the Deep South." President Bok's continued efforts to purge the Law School of Critical Legal Studies (itself an outgrowth of '60s critical thought) threaten to polarize the faculty and entrench very conservative, corporate-oriented legal education. When will Harvard start to encourage rather than to suppress independent...
...scene looks like a department store's Christmas rush. The floor is piled high with television sets, videocassette recorders, audiocassette players and sewing machines. Nervous energy and thick cigarette smoke swirl through the crowd. On a Saturday evening, these giddy shoppers have converged in front of a check-in counter at New York City's Kennedy Airport, where they will board Pan Am's nonstop to Moscow, the famed Flight...