Word: establish
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...SENTENCED. Abimael Guzmán, 71, founder and leader of Shining Path, the Peruvian Maoist guerilla movement whose bloody campaign to establish communist rule in the 1980s and '90s claimed more than 30,000 lives; to life imprisonment; in Lima. Guzmán's partner Elena Iparraguirre, 59, also received a life sentence and 10 associates got 24 to 35 years. The verdicts end a yearlong hearing before a civil tribunal, Guzmán's third trial since his capture in 1992. His lawyers plan to appeal...
...Nobel laureate for literature, for speaking about the Armenian genocide—which violates Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. In defending free speech, even the expatriate Pamuk spoke against the French bill. A free market of ideas, not laws imposed by the state, should establish what is true...
...only one-fourth of its Ivy League contests, as the Bears decisively swept the Crimson, 3-0 (30-25, 30-26, 30-24).In the first game, the Crimson faltered from the start, falling into a 1-5 deficit. Unable to mount a full recovery, the team struggled to establish its comfort zone, most notably in its passing. “I feel like our team played like a bunch of individuals out on the court today,” junior co-captain Laura Mahon said. “I think it happened from the start and continued through...
...from the outside, you can see the people under their religious gear wearing designer jeans. But the problem is in other places, with the jihadists and the Wahhabi sect of Muslims. Oil money is now spreading through Pakistan all the way down to Indonesia, Malaysia and Africa, helping establish madrasahs. They're teaching and brainwashing kids at a very young age nothing but their version of the Koran, hand in hand with terrorism and martyrdom...
...purpose, said Congress, was "to establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability." That covered a lot of ground, and a lot of people - some 43 million, by Congress's estimate. To be sure, the new law did not please everyone. Businesses griped about the cost of altering their bricks and mortar and, more vociferously, about fighting lawsuits claiming violations of the act. Horror stories, some even true, abounded of serial plaintiffs filing hundreds of cases against businesses they had never visited. Yet one way or another, the accommodations got made, and the nation...