Word: defunction
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...officer as a "bias-related incident." The cop refused to take her report, citing free-speech protections, but her attempt to bring the statement before an administrative board became a national story. The college was savaged in the conservative media. Today the bias-related-incidents committee is all but defunct--"we're re-evaluating the committee," says college president Peggy Williams. The Ithaca College Republicans consider its demise one of their greatest achievements...
...walked, but the decision's effect rippled powerfully throughout the country. The Irish edition of the Sun, Britain's leading tabloid, called Ireland a pervert's paradise, and its rival the Mirror warned families to lock up their daughters. The government immediately appealed, and Parliament rushed to replace the defunct law, indeed to raise the age of consent for both genders to 17. Nevertheless, at a moment when much of Western Europe is scandalized over pedophilia, doubts now exist over the legal status of six other Irish men imprisoned for statutory rape - who, as a judge pointed out last week...
DIED. Hugh Patterson Jr., 91, levelheaded publisher of the now defunct Arkansas Gazette who in 1957 stood against segregation in the face of racist mobs that, in defiance of a 1954 Supreme Court ruling, tried to block black students from matriculating at Little Rock's Central High School; in Little Rock, Ark. The paper suffered circulation and ad- revenue losses exceeding $1 million for its stance on the issue but later won two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the federal-state confrontation...
...Bush explained that he had accidentally typed in Mr. Gore's defunct "veepguy48@whitehouse.gov" email address. "Besides," the President continued, "when you hang out with my friends, you tend to become-" "I tend to become what?" Gore interrupted. "That," Bush said. "What you just did. Like in the debates." After loudly sighing, the author of Earth in the Balance accused Bush of "hanging out with yes-men-you're ensconced in this impenetrable inner clique...
...Rosenthal, the New York Times Warsaw correspondent who would go on to become the paper of record's top editor, wrote what became a famous article headlined, ?There is No News at Auschwitz,? describing how the mundane of the present exists in disquieting company alongside the horrors at the defunct Nazi concentration camp. Rosenthal, who just recently died at the age of 84, movingly recalled his unease at seeing the sunny rows of poplars and hearing the sounds of town children playing just down the road from the remains of torture chambers, low-level barracks and human furnaces...