Word: nine-month
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Australian David Hicks, 31, was recently handed a nine-month sentence by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, and expects to be free by New Year's Eve after five years in legal limbo at the U.S. detention facility. Meanwhile, the so-called "American Taliban," John Walker Lindh, languishes in a super-max prison in Colorado, serving a 20-year term. The stark comparison between their punishments is the basis of a petition sent this week by Lindh's lawyers to President Bush and the Justice Department, calling for his sentence to be commuted. "This is a simple...
Though Vance’s nine-month recovery has been an up-and-down journey, it’s been mostly up as of late. With the Crimson’s non-conference schedule under way and the Ivy League opener at Penn approaching on April 2, Vance has made his greatest strides toward a full recovery in the last few weeks of the offseason...
...watchdog group accused Harvard’s research laboratories of being one of the country’s worst violators of animal rights in a report released this week. Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) cited 32 federal violations by Harvard in a nine-month period. The violations included cases in which a “researcher strangled a primate through negligence, monkeys are deprived of water, rabbits and wallaby’s receive improper anesthesia.” A Harvard Medical School spokesman, Don L. Gibbons, contested the validity of the report, claiming that all but one of the violations...
Math 55, officially known as “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra,” is essentially a nine-month mathematical boot camp. The course teaches four years of math in two semesters. “It’s an intense, warp-speed survey of the entire undergraduate math curriculum in one year,” Harrison says...
...with the Berlin Wall, but Litvinenko’s career did not suffer. Actually, he even received a better position at the KGB’s successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB), and specialized in infiltrating organized crime syndicates, which proliferated in the post-perestroika Russia. After serving a nine-month sentence for “abuse of power” in 1999, Litvinenko pulled off a spectacular escape from Russia that took him to the United Kingdom via Turkey. His renegade life had begun...