Word: dismissed
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...would normally dismiss Conley's actions as appropriate to his age. After all, it is probably unreasonable to expect mature judgement from someone so new to the "real world." Yet, when an individual is given the voice and the concomitant power afforded any individual who publishes in a widely circulated paper, our expectations must rise to a commensurate level. No longer can a spiteful young man rail against his enemies with impunity--as he might do in the Harvard Union...
Taylor said the University's "extensive response to the complaint" would likely be filed on Tuesday. The response reaffirms Harvard's decision to dismiss Hicks, Taylor said...
...Harvard professors dispute the astrologers' claims and dismiss the use of the stars to predict personality and the future as groundless...
...word in the political debate remains impichment, impeachment, an imported term that Russians were using to mean "vote Yeltsin out." That is a mistranslation of the long legal process by which the U.S. can dismiss a President, but Russian parliamentarians are also vague about the concepts of demokratiya, konstitutsiya and zakonnost (legality). Despite much ostentatious talk of legality, post-Soviet Russia is still a place where the law and its institutions are in flux...
...RUSSIAN POLITICS: The Congress wanted to do some irreversible damage to the President. The Congress did not succeed. The President too wanted actually to dismiss the Congress. It is not proper for the President to do such things. Neither side can win outright, and that's good. Thank God for that. We don't need victors in this situation. ON THE NEXT STEP: Early elections are what our democracy needs now. As early as May. New elections will bring in some very good people, some new forces. ON THE COUP THREAT: We have a different kind of society now. Those...