Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shaolin Kung Fu school held a martial arts demonstration and the Asian American Association's Dance Troupe performed a ribbon dance...
China's leaders, never known for lenience, are suddenly acting tougher than in the recent past, jailing dissidents, executing dozens of criminals and corrupt officials, pressuring foreign journalists. Last month the National People's Congress submitted new laws to make it easier to arrest individuals and impose martial law. There have never been serious impediments to doing either, but for some reason the government has decided to remove even flimsy legal obstacles...
Tough guys do meditate. Plus, they write about it. Chicago Bulls coach PHIL JACKSON and movie star-martial artist-deodorant endorser CHUCK NORRIS are both releasing books on Zen. In Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior, released this month, Jackson--or Swift Eagle, as his friends the Lakota Sioux call him--expounds his theory that in basketball "the mystery of life gets played out night after night" and suggests that the pertinent thing about the Bulls' signature triangle offense is that it "embodies the Zen Christian attitude of selfless awareness." Norris' book, The Secret Power Within, his second...
...human decency and proper military behavior, the servicemen waived their right to protection under the agreement, and should be held accountable to the laws of Japan. The arcane postwar agreement should no longer protect them. Their confession should serve as their indictment and as grounds for a court-martial and a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. military. MARIE-EILEEN ONIEAL Lowell, Massachusetts Via E-mail...
Hardly recovered from the Tailhook scandal, the Navy set sail once again on the treacherous seas of a sexual-harassment case. In Washington, court-martial proceedings opened against Captain Everett Greene to examine charges that he wrote suggestive notes and made harassing calls to two female subordinates. He insists his messages were misconstrued. On Friday the judge dismissed one woman's allegations. At the time of the alleged incidents, Greene ran the Navy's equal-opportunity unit--which handled sex- harassment complaints...