Word: ill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Palestinian leader flew to Paris last Friday after falling gravely ill with an as-yet-unidentified ailment. French President Jacques Chirac visited Arafat in a hospital outside the nation’s capital yesterday afternoon and confirmed that the Palestinian leader was still alive...
Four years ago, four students became seriously ill from alcohol poisoning at the Harvard-Yale Game. Two years later, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 instituted a ban on kegs as a strategy to combat binge drinking at Harvard-Yale. At the time the wisdom of the ban was debatable, although the end goal of reducing health and safety risks to students was unquestionably admirable. The most persuasive arguments opposing the ban centered on the ineffectiveness and arbitrariness of eliminating kegs. And indeed, at the 2002 Harvard-Yale Game, about 30 fans were transported...
...During a courtroom examination, Jenkins for the first time recounted publicly the circumstances of his defection. In a halting and gravelly drawl, he revealed that he wound up in North Korea not because he was abducted or because he had any ill will for the U.S., but for a far more prosaic reason: he was scared. Although he had been in the Army for six years and was on his second tour in Korea, his November 1964 deployment there was by far the most dangerous of his career, with frequent patrols along the DMZ and the enemy occasionally shooting...
...repeatedly victimized at the hands of particular members of the Columbia faculty. Although the cases in question are controversial and in dispute, we are deeply concerned that students’ rights and dignity may have been trampled on. Thankfully, Columbia has taken steps to investigate, identify and rectify any ill-treatment students have suffered—as it should—but these incidents serve as a reminder of the fine line between freedom of exchange and inappropriate insensitivity...
...ISRAEL: With Arafat ill, Sharon faces fresh challenges...