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Many students said the plan would disrupt houses' community feeling, which they say often exists because of common interests, ethnic origins or race...
...have been going on about postponing or canceling the elections. Some say we need to ensure stability in this period of change. On the other hand, the opposition wants to destabilize the situation and cause people to distrust the government and is spreading rumors that the authorities intend to disrupt the elections. In my message to the Federation Council this year, I particularly emphasized the importance of holding elections at the times set by the Constitution. The executive branch will do everything to ensure this...
...Vietnam was not winnable. He continued to send more Americans into Vietnam in an attempt to force the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. At the same time his fear of "escalation" led him to hamstring the military's efforts to push northwards toward North Vietnam or to disrupt the enemy's supply lines, the so-called "Ho Chi Minh Trail" that went through a nominally neutral Laos...
...mind-set that can entertain the notion that the Federal Government would car-bomb its own day-care center in order to disrupt a ragtag vigil is a mind-set that won't easily be appeased by government denials. After a 1993 investigation, the Justice Department blamed the Davidians for the suicidal fire and absolved the FBI of responsibility. Various groups of survivors and families of victims have initiated lawsuits against the Federal Government, seeking more than $1.5 billion in total damages. One group has hired former Attorney General and leftish advocate Ramsey Clark to handle its case...
...problem is that the Driscoll effort threatens to disrupt a principle that is cherished in liberal Brookline--the principle of equity, which holds that all the public schools in the town should be comparably funded, equipped and staffed. Thus when a father offered to donate $40,000 to cover the cost of an additional kindergarten teacher, the school turned him down, prompting the father to send his child to a private school. And when another parent offered to donate $100,000 worth of computer equipment to the Heath School, he had to agree to divvy up the equipment equally among...