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Under the plan, the law school—long considered a prime candidate for a move across the river—is off the hook. This represents a victory for its faculty, which has been dead-set against leaving Cambridge for several years...
...supporters gathered around a television inside to watch the results of the voting to confirm Robinson as their Bishop, the?first openly gay man to hold the office in the history of the Episcopal church.?A technician from a local TV station, there to cover the event, fumbled to hook the TV up to cable. Just before the announcement, it flickered into life...
...that a foundation Yang ran for a few years until 1994 received funding from donors in Taiwan's Kuomintang political party and that Yang sent $400 to three relatives and one friend on the mainland. More likely, the charge of espionage is intended to get mainland authorities off the hook for their mishandling of Yang's case. They held him for more than a year without allowing him access to a lawyer or to his family and?in violation of China's own laws?refused during that time to charge him with a crime. But the charge fails to excuse...
...They need to lock their window and lock their doors, keep their property away from doors and windows,” he said. “We’re comfortable with our measures, but that doesn’t take the community off the hook...
...Mass was good. Nothing more can be said about this segment of the voyage. It was wholesome, rife with folk songs as well as Westernized neo-Christian rock. The Pope drove around for a good while in the Popemobile; and by hook or by crook, each Catholic punk rocker willing to use his or her elbows was able to see him close-up, in the flesh: Ivana Pavla Deuce...