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Concerns about the civil liberties of Arab Americans stem in part from drastic steps the government took during World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly moved to INTERNMENT CAMPS. In an issue with a cover story on Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, TIME wrote of one of the first groups sent away...
Universities across the country are implementing drastic measures to cope with budget difficulties...
...first speaker Sam Heyman, a 1963 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate, painted a drastic picture of the situation, recalling that about a third of his class pursued government jobs, compared to only a handful of today’s HLS students...
Representative Paul Demakis—whose precinct gained a large chunk of Cambridge under the new redistricting—was the only member of the Cambridge delegation who voted in favor of the redistricting. Demakis also implied that Barrios was to blame for the drastic redistricting...
...avoid letting the orchestra fall through the cracks of hard times. HRO Treasurer Ariel B. E. Shwayder ’03 speculates, “Most of our money comes from ticket sales or donations from people…but I can’t see anything really drastic happening to us, because we have people who take care of us and we know we’re in good hands...