Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spanish governor ruled in somnolent serenity until 1806, when Spain was succumbing to Napoleon, and Spanish rule in Buenos Aires was attacked by the British. The Spanish governor of the Falklands decided to flee, leaving the islands without any government at all. The population dwindled to a few lawless gauchos and wandering fishermen...
...larger volume. Nevertheless, the Institute is only reaching five percent of the eligible clientcle and is so overloaded that it can give substantial help to only a very small percentage of those who come for assistance. Every month, hundreds of people with clearly valid claims against unscrupulous creditors, lawless landlords, and unresponsive welfare agencies have to be turned away. The irony of Professor Glazer's comments is that not less, but far more funds will be needed if the poor in Boston and elsewhere are to have even minimal access to the kind of equal justice Professor Glazer has, himself...
...there is more. It's too bad that Greg Lawless (or 'GFL,' as Crimson tradition would have it) didn't put together a collection of the best Crimson pieces ever instead of the representative sampling he tried to assemble. Still, there is some good stuff in these 374 pages, even if you don't have 14 Plympton St. on the brain. Not 17 dollars worth, to be sure, but enough to waste an hour or so in Lamont with if you're too lazy, or more likely unmotivated, to investigate Harvard's past through a direct look-over of volumes...
...insurgents are said to have caused heavy casualties on both sides. In the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, the Soviets have apparently given up their attempt to dislodge the fierce mujahidin (Islamic warriors) from their strongholds. Similarly, Soviet troops have been unsuccessful in efforts to reimpose order on the lawless city of Herat in the northwest, and have only managed to maintain a tenuous and frequently interrupted hold on Kandahar in the south. In Kabul, sniper and grenade attacks have forced a progressively longer and stricter curfew, most recently from 10 o'clock in the evening...
...Garfield version, to be published in the U.S. by Pantheon Books in 1981, is sympathetic to the circumstances that fathered Drood: Dickens was consumed by his liaison with the 20-year-old actress Ellen Lawless Ternan. "The affair overshadows the book," Garfield be lieves. "Jasper represents Dickens himself. At times the affair with a girl so much younger must have appalled Dickens, who had conventional moral views...