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Other than Gabay's dismissal of Davis's petition, the most flagrant example is the recent term-bill fee hike itself. Council members voted overwhelmingly to raise students' fees by 50 percent, while a Crimson poll revealed that most students (56.2 percent) disapproved of the fee hike (with 25.2 percent uncertain...
Davis said any move to make the referendumadvisory would be a "flagrant violation of thestudent body's constitution...
...vicious demonization of both black Islamic fellow citizens by the mainstream media is -- how do we talk about and fight all forms of xenophobia in American life? So far, we have failed miserably. Instead we have become even more polarized, owing to our distrust of one another and our flagrant disregard for the transformative possibilities of high-quality public conversation...
Michigan prosecutors responded with a request that Kevorkian's bond be increased from $10,000 to $20,000 and that he put up 10% of it in cash. In court Judge Thomas Jackson granted the increase, telling Kevorkian sharply that he had been in "utter contempt and flagrant violation" of the state law. Kevorkian's thin frame slumped, and he said, "I won't move...
...programming. The violinist Stephanie Chase was slated to play in each work, first Bartok's First Sonata for Violin and Piano, then the Brahms Horn Trio, and finally the Beethoven Septet. While programming for a single performer might be acceptable even in a chamber music concert, the flagrant insertion of Bartok's Sonata into a menu of otherwise standard (and somewhat related) fare, seemed justified only by the appeal of alliteration. Before she played, it would have been conceivable that her specialty was Bartok, and the deviation in programming could be justified by the quality of the performance...