Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apart from his zealous call for enforcement, Scali indulges in an even more asinine assertion in the final paragraph of his manifesto. "Gen-Xers, born between 1961 and 1981," according to Scali, "are without such character and are the drunks and drug addicted students of today...
...Gore is a curious specimen. To understand why, it helps to know about the scissors. Whenever a memo, article or academic paper sparks the Vice President's formidable mind, he pulls out his scissors and begins snipping. He whittles a page down to a paragraph, the paragraph down to a sentence and that sentence down to the one key phrase that contains, for Gore, the essence of the whole idea. Then he arranges the fragment on his desk among the other scraps of paper--seeds of thought, if you will--already lying there. "You just pray nobody sneezes," says Carol...
...what Spree did was bad, and, no, you really shouldn't choke your boss, especially in front of your co-workers. But how bad was it? Sprewell's contract was the first ever terminated through paragraph 16A1 of the uniform player contract, which prohibits "acts of moral turpitude." And the yearlong ban was, by 10 months, the longest in NBA history. Was what Sprewell did that much worse than Charles Barkley's throwing a guy through a plate-glass window? Worse than Barkley's spitting on a fan? Worse than Barkley's punching...
...last summer and is now Sweden's ambassador to the U.S. On June 22, 1996, Ekeus and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz signed an agreement guaranteeing that U.N. inspectors would have "immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access" to all sites they wanted to inspect. The accord does contain a paragraph that calls for respecting Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity, but Ekeus says this was only a repetition of formal language in the 1991 truce agreement...
...final paragraph of the article in yesterday's Crimson states that, "it is up to the students to specify what arrangements they need." Quite the contrary. It is the sole responsibility of the director of the SDRC, Louise Russell, to specify appropriate accommodations for all students with disabilities...