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Former Marine Sargeant Jack Smith, the first to discard his medals, said the vets were gathered in Washington to visit those "whose action and inaction was responsible for the war... our testimony gives definition to words like genocide, racism, and atrocity...
...first presidents to back student power on his university's board of trustees. In recent months, Princeton students have joined the faculty in working out some of the nation's most rational guidelines for deciding where to cut university expenses. Well before that, Goheen helped Princeton discard its white-shoe image. He reduced the social power of fraternity-like "eating clubs," cut the number of prep-school graduates to 70% of the freshman class, steadily recruited black students. In 1968 Princeton went coed. Of its current 5,100 students, 700 are women...
This American is not ugly; he alone takes the trouble to learn the Lao language and culture, to discard his racist and culturally biased preconceptions and expectations. The work he does is very often merciful and humanitarian, although in Laos he does not function in an emergency comparable to India's or Pakistan...
Clean Sweep? Conspiracy thus poses a legal dilemma. In its effort to cope with group crime, society tends to discard a basic premise of Anglo-American law: the presumption that an individual is innocent until proved guilty. Many legal scholars believe that jurors often regard conspiracy defendants as guilty until proved innocent. There is also rising concern about the Government's increasing use of conspiracy laws against leaders of dissident political groups. Indeed, some scholars agree with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who argues: "I would wipe the law clean of conspiracy; on balance, it does more harm than...
...Dogs don't spit, drop cigarette butts, discard used gum, beer cans, candy and food wrappers, dirty Kleenex; they don't even use subways, where the stench is often not to be believed. As a Manhattan dog owner, I spend a good deal of each day looking at this city's streets and gutters. Most of the debris and filth is left behind by humans, not dogs...