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...been to conform. Cadets are demanding that they be given the same rights of due process that civilians enjoy under the law. Some young legal officers at West Point are siding with the cadets, claiming that hearings on code violations are often nothing more than kangaroo courts that flout the 14th Amendment...
This year's returns even managed to flout the academics' definition of an election as a mechanism for institutionalized conflict and change--though the ballots aren't all counted yet, it looks as though the new Cambridge City Council will be very much like...
...bride are divorced. (Beside his new wife in the third pew behind the mother of the bride.) Married four times, Vanderbilt continually revised her book to reflect society's increasing informality, but she believed strongly that "only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity...
These diplomatic and economic developments clearly flout the 1964 resolution of the Organization of American States that requires its members to break diplomatic relations and stop all trade (except humanitarian shipments) with Cuba. But recent events have made the resolution something of an anachronism. Items...
...link between what Walt Whitman called "the American yawp" and the sophisticated experiments going on overseas. He was born in Hailey, Idaho. At 15-already 6 ft. tall, with a blazing shock of carrot hair-he entered the University of Pennsylvania to study "eight or nine" languages and flout the regular curriculum. He also met a medical student named William Carlos Williams, and they began poetic experiments together. After his studies, Pound taught briefly at Wabash College but was thrown out-he kept a girl in his room for a night. Outraged but probably relieved too, Pound...