Word: grounds
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...greater problem: a seeming inability to police itself. In spite of leaders' repeated "zero tolerance" pronouncements--concerning political extremism, racism, sexual harassment and hazing--authorities are just as often forced to acknowledge a breakdown in the chain of command. Last week a sixth soldier at Maryland's Aberdeen training ground was brought up on charges of sexually harassing a trainee, while the Citadel, a military-training school, is in the midst of its own hazing scandal involving female cadets. Blood pinning cannot be written off as the overexcitement of young Marines: one video plainly shows a first lieutenant guzzling...
Swinging from vines in the 1930s and '40s, Johnny Weissmuller was King of the Jungle. But on the ground he often played straight man to his sidekick, Cheeta. More than a dozen chimpanzees took the role, and the last was genial Jiggs. Born in Liberia, he was brought to the U.S. by Hollywood trainer Tony Gentry along with sister Susie--another Cheeta portrayer--who died last month at 64. Gentry's nephew Dan Westfall, a theater performer, inherited the pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan...
...Harvard a consultant breeding ground? Let's examine "Management Consulting in 1997," a Harvard Business School (HBS) handbook that lists the following consultant qualifications...
...Harper Hines has] one foot in glory and one foot on the ground," Bell said...
Frederick Shauer, Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School, and Wendy Kaminer, public policy fellow at Radcliffe College criticized Forman's film on the ground that it reconstructed Flynt as a likable champion of the first amendment...