Word: lawlessness
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...afternoon, when more protests were taking shape, he sent out tanks, troops, and trucks, to make certain they didn't last long. Russell termed it "a clampdown." Pro-Saddam protesters, he said, "will not get a chance to disrupt this city. We will not allow this to become a lawless land of Saddam-loving thugs...
...intelligence reports, "they are coming across in hundreds." The U.N. Security Council met in closed consultations late last week to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. "It is really very bad, much worse than Iraq," says a senior ambassador who took part. He fears the country could devolve into a lawless free-for-all, with international troops caught in the middle...
...global appetite for such relics has sparked a lawless gold rush across Asia. In the past year alone, Indian police busted a smuggling ring that allegedly stripped hundreds of temples and monuments of sculptures and frescoes, then sent them on to be sold to collectors in the U.S. and Europe; Cambodian cops seized several truckloads of priceless Khmer sculptures crudely ripped from archaeological sites in Banteay Meanchey province; and Chinese officials uncovered the theft of 158 pieces of religious statuary from a collection lent to a museum in Chengde by the Forbidden City's Palace Museum in Beijing. Over...
While this is the first year that two Harvard students have competed against each other, Redd and Gray follow in a Crimson tradition of state-level victory in the last decade that includes three Miss Massachusetts contestants and a Miss North Dakota. Last year, Miss Arizona Laura M. Lawless ’00 reached the top 15, losing the crown to future HLS student Harold...
...case was obviously decided wrongly,” he said. “I think it’s a legal precedent for the proposition that universities are allowed to be lawless...