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...While we recognize that entering a private institution causes us to surrender some rights as citizens, the Administrative Board should adhere to the spirit, if not the letter, of due process. Students who are facing possible dismissal from the College should be allowed to appear before the Board to explain their actions and make the best possible case for themselves. Instead, students are forced to blindly put their faith in their resident dean or assistant dean of freshmen, who serves as their advocate to the Board. Though the advocate abstains from voting on matters regarding students he or she represents...
...TIME: How do you explain the 2003 election figure, recording that you won 95% of the vote? A lot of people look at that and say: 'That's just not credible.' Kagame: Why? The burden is on them to prove their case. But I can prove my case. It all depends on the context in the country. In our case, what were the circumstances? People coming out of a genocide. A lot of chaos. So people wanted peace and security, to break away from the past. And they really focused on what could bring that. And what was it? People...
...TIME: There this enduring mystery over how the genocide could ever have happened. What made people behave like that? Kagame: It's not easy to explain. Some of the things that were done, I still cannot speak about. We have to do research into it, we have to look into ourselves and work out why it happened in Rwanda. People were killing members of their own family. Fathers were killing their own children because some of them resembled their wife, who was a Tutsi. How do you explain that...
...traveled 4 ft. (1.2 m)--before eating itself in a fiery explosion. The global hilarity was immediate, but U.S. officials--who had much to learn about the science of rocketry but clearly knew plenty about the art of spin--would have none of it. Asked to explain the cause of the explosion, a spokesman denied one had taken place. Asked what had occurred on the pad, he answered, "Rapid burning...
...show enjoys near universal popularity, as do other exported TV programs such as “Friends,” “Lost,” and “Prison Break.” French pop culture is, by and large, American.Which is a tough phenomenon to explain: Why isn’t French music big in France? Unfortunately, the cliché stereotypes don’t apply. It’s not like the French import foreign pop because they’re lazy. They give as good as they get, even if bands like Phoenix...