Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Event organizers originally planned to sell no more than 1,200 tickets to tonight's formal. But after all 1,200 were sold three days ago, they decided to sell 200 additional tickets, said Claudia Y. Sanchez '97, one of the executive directors...
Baker is not the working class hero, "standing tall...against the culture of absurd complaints," as Barnicle believes. Baker is a boorish, disrespectful self-stigmatized pseudo-intellectual who attempted to defend his unprofessional actions by citing Plato instead of heeding his employer's request for a formal apology. At the very least, he could have said: "Look, I graduated from Harvard in 1976, but I'm stuck in a dead-end job. Can't you understand why I'm grouchy...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Fearing the growing power of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban leaders, three militia chiefs in the nation's northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from...
Maura Costin Scalise, coach of women's swimming, characterized the gathering, the first formal meeting of the athletic department since the report was issued, as "very, very good for both sides...
...commenting, the bureau did not ask Jewell to take another polygraph test, and returned his gun collection, not something usually done for a major suspect. But simply dropping him from the suspect list is not enough for Jewell and his lawyer, who are looking for a formal, public admission that he is no longer a suspect in the bombing. Currently before U.S. District Judge Owen Forrester is a motion to unseal the FBI affidavit used to obtain the search warrants used for Jewell's dwellings. Lin Wood, Jewell's lawyer, says the document will show that...