Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The Justice Department came to Oliver L. North's defense yesterday by objecting to the Iran-Contra prosecutor's argument that the former presidential aide defrauded Congress' powers over foreign affairs...
...This case, in fact, arises in the context of a profound policy dispute between the executive and legislative branches with respect to foreign affairs," the department said in its brief...
...film's musical crux. During one scene, where Sutherland and Winona Ryder (who plays the sister of Sutherland's best friend) are escaping to Canada, the song "Wooden Ships" plays on the soundtrack. The lyric ("Go, take a sister then by the hand/Lead her away from this foreign land") seems especially appropriate, yet when pressed on this similarity, Thompson replies that it is merely coincidence...
March 20: Bush, in his first foreign policy initiative, convenes the first International Conference of Prison Furloughs. In order to be able to bargain with the Soviets from a position of strength, Bush grants furloughs to all American convicted murderers the day before the conference...
According to official University statistics, 6.2 percent of Harvard's tenured faculty are minorities. However, as the report of the MSA clearly documented last spring, the deceptive figure represents the conflation of minorities and foreign scholars, who comprise at least half of those counted as "minorities" in these inflated statistics. Yet Harvard's affirmative action goals for the next five years call for the hiring of only eleven more tenured minority profesors and an additional thirty-three tenure-tracked professors. The rest of the University's affirmative action initiatives will be directed toward attracting temporary and visiting scholars, unable...