Word: jointed
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...Kotowski went public with several significant arrests the University had covered up--including that of a crazed man who carried a Glock pistol to just a few feet away from Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell before last year's Commencement exercises...
Last spring, Chang became involved in the protests against the choice of then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell as Commencement speaker, because Powell had fought lifting the ban on gays in the military. When Chen argued that he didn't think a protest at the ceremony was appropriate, Chang debated the issue with him until 6 on commencement morning. "I think a lot of people would've been `Why don't you understand civilrights?'" Chen says. "I think his patience in talking about these things helped make me [understand] why the [protest] was so essential...
While I've certainly enjoyed history's painless demands, my reasons for choosing history were never pragmatic ones. I had first thought of doing a joint concentration with government but found myself constantly frustrated by the theoretical structures discussed in the government course I took. I didn't care what some Ph.D. hypothesized about 20 years after the fact; I wanted to know what had actually been going on. Or at least what people at the time thought was going...
...drained Harvard's faculty in thefall of 1943, the unthinkable became feasible.True, "coeducation" remained a dirty word; theterm used was "joint instruction." But in onemoment, all changed: we took classes with Harvardmen in Harvard halls...
ACCESS TO ABORTION CLINICS: On consecutive Thursdays in early May, both the House and the Senate adopted a joint conference report that creates federal civil and criminal penalties for those who use force, the threat of force or physical obstruction to block access to abortion clinics. The measure, which President Clinton signed into law last week, passed in the House 241 to 174 and in the Senate by a vote of 69 to 30. First-time violators can be fined up to $100,000; repeat offenders could get penalties of $250,000 and three years in prison...