Word: doe
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...percent of FAFSA applications in the 2000-2001 school year left the question blank—and had their applications processed nevertheless due to bureaucratic “confusion and time constraints,” according to the SSDP report. The Bush administration’s Department of Education (DOE), however, has since refused to process any applications that fail to answer the question.DEALING AT HARVARDHarvard’s recent alleged drug offenders, however, won’t have to worry about their aid, even if they are convicted—as long as they are not expelled, they...
...civil war in Liberia is about hatred: personal hatred based on political rivalry, brutally used to turn tribe against tribe. Charles Taylor, head of the rebel National Patriotic Liberation Front, and President Samuel Doe, the harsh ruler of the country's 2.5 million people for the past decade, loathe each other. Says Taylor: 'The only good Doe is a dead Doe' ... Few soldiers or rebels have died in battle, but thousands of civilians have perished ... Last week, in an effort to halt the tribal carnage, 3,000 troops of a five-nation West African peacekeeping force began...
...China?s hunger for energy is growing more ravenous by the day, the study said; by 2025, the DOE estimates that China?s demand will more than double, to 14.2 million barrels of oil per day, and its imports will more than triple, to 10.7 million barrels per day. Even though China is aggressively diversifying its sources of supply, DOE says, by investing in Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Sudan, Iraq, Peru, Azerbaijan, Sudan and Indonesia, Iran is still likely to figure as one of its most dependable suppliers...
...Stripper Ergo...Rape?” (Apr. 12), Ashton R. Lattimore makes a commendable effort to address the disturbing cultural tendency to “explain” the crime and blame the rape victim. But the Duke lacrosse situation is not, thus far, a Jane Doe case. Lattimore’s concern—that the media firestorm has played a major role in discrediting the alleged victim, an exotic dancer—has been substantially outweighed by the thorough vilification of the ostensibly rich, white, privileged team members and the elitist university they represent. Never have I heard...
...next day I was told that another "President," Prince Johnson, wanted to meet "one of those people who was with Taylor," and so I was taken the following day to his "executive mansion," which is located in an office building near the harbor. Parked outside was the late President Doe's silver Mercedes. Dressed in military fatigues, Johnson punctuated his pronouncements by waving a cigar in one hand and a can of beer in the other. Though his troops had occasionally fought alongside ECOMOG against the N.P.F.L., Johnson was nearly as hostile to the peacekeeping force...