Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were only some way to outlaw alums to assign graduates, after their fifth reunion, to plague some other school, to sing some other fight song, and to leave the rest of us to scream the team to victory...
...Learning Link, a computer owned by a New York City public-TV station that provides educational information for hundreds of schools. A chilling electronic message was left behind: "Happy Thanksgiving, you turkeys, from all of us at MOD." It was signed with five code names: Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak, Outlaw, Corrupt and Scorpion...
...pressure. Last week Escobar fired back, announcing that he would set up a private army, the Antioquia Rebel Movement, to counter the "barbaric methods" of special antinarcotics police forces. The government dismissed the threat as an attempt by Escobar to portray himself as a political -- rather than a criminal -- outlaw, another ploy to cut a deal. The continued standoff is leading to a new wave of violence. Late last week two car bombs exploded in Bogota, injuring about 20 people. Police are blaming Escobar and say it's a warning that things will get worse...
...rushed to Governor John Engler's desk last week, which would temporarily ban physician-assisted suicide until a commission can make a recommendation, is aimed directly at Kevorkian. But the doctor says it makes no difference to him if Michigan's elected representatives turn him into an outlaw. "He has told me that even if this does become a law, he would violate it," says Fieger. The problem is that once zealots claim the right to choose which laws they'll obey, all the underlying trust that permits professionals, and especially doctors, to function disappears...
...fact, the court may soon tangle with the legality of abortion clinic blockades. Though allowing protesters to use force to prevent access to these facilities is unthinkable, a decision to outlaw their right to assemble would be equally unconstitutional...