Word: freed
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...liberate them from the troublesome burden of teaching, thereby giving them the time for more research and the landing of bigger and better research grants? Both the faculty and the University benfit. But what about the students? Who will pick up the slack if junior members are freed from classroom responsibilities? The senior faculty, even if they could be found within state lines, have probably forgotten how. Maybe they could hire baby-sitters...
...National Assembly in 1960. The military, however, suddenly aired Kim's associations with a Communist-leaning party roughly 35 years earlier and sentenced him to death on grounds of sedition. The sentence was ultimately commuted to 20 years' imprisonment--thanks, it seems, to U.S. lobbying. Further pressure from Washington freed Kim to come to the U.S. for medical treatment. Ever since his return last year, Kim, now 62, has been banned from politics and kept under virtual house arrest, his every move shadowed. Even more damaging, his misfounded reputation has apparently cut him off from the country's two most...
Some Harvard students enjoy visiting and even staying at the monastery. Anne Hallward '88, an Eliot House resident, says she attends services at the monastery because it is a smaller, more intimate service. "The common stereotype is that monks are withdrawn and uninvolved with the world whereas they are freed from other things and have time to really be involved in what is going on." Hallward says that the first time she attended a service at the monastery, she ended up sitting at the head table at the dinner following the service, and, to her surprise, found that the superior...
...Police, freed by the wall from some of their previous crowd-control duties, have enforced liquor laws by making more than 1,500 arrests in the beach area over the past four weeks, vs. 889 during all six weeks of the 1985 break. But merchants do not want Lauderdale to get too quiet: last year the college crowd pumped $120 million into their tills...
...seven years in Somoza's prisons. In 1967, he was captured and jailed for participating in a bank robbery. During his incarceration, Ortega composed poetry. His most famous is called "I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion." After years of hunger--and, he claims, torture--he was freed in 1974 when a group of Sandinistas barged into a fancy Managua Christmas party, took a number of guests hostage and successfully demanded that Somoza release ! certain guerrillas, among them Ortega. He was then hustled off to Cuba, where he trained for several months under veterans of Castro's revolution...