Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALONG WITH THE NEWS that Harvard University Police are facing a $2 million lawsuit for detaining and searching eight Black teenagers without sufficient cause comes a slew of questions. Why were the youths stopped if they didn't match the description of the suspect the police were searching for? Why...
Physics Department Chairman Francis M. Pipkin refused to comment on the incident.
By the standard of much current fiction, these events sound like small potatoes indeed, stuff to get out of the way before the corporate takeover or the bedroom marathon. But Naipaul manages to give each isolated incident the ! inevitability and gravity of history. The impression is not that so little...
University officials became aware of the incident two weeks ago when students reported that Hechtman was experimenting with radioactive materials. Authorities from the university Office of Environmental Safety searched the room and discovered a number of bottled chemicals, including one labeled "Depleted Uranium Powder--25 Grams."
Tufts administrators fear that "reports of the incident will adversely affect minority recruitment," said Rosemarie Van Camp, Tufts director of communications.