Word: partings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term bill, they are sorely mistaken. If a club tried to levy their own $30 tax on their members, we would find this outrageous. Yet the council is trying to do just that and worse. They are asking us to support groups financially that we are, for the most part, not even members of. I would much rather give $30 directly to the group of my choice than to the council to dole out (and possibly lose...
Whatever one thinks of the legal reasoning employed in White's dissent, it was clearly the precedent-based conclusion of a reasonable jurist, not the ravings of a black-robed subversive intent on rewriting the law. As part of his political move, however, Ashcroft said the reasoning was based on "an outrageous technicality" and accused White of harbouring a "personal political agenda...
...Vital Part of HIID Staff...
...addition, HIID's core staff teach an annual average of 34 courses in six professional schools and five FAS departments; and HIID hires an average of 80 students a year in part-time positions, and provides summer travel grants to an average of some 20 students each year to enable them to pursue research in developing countries...
...Part of the problem decoding what happened in the cockpit is cultural. NTSB officials readily conceded late Monday that even after multiple translations, the final conversation in cockpit of Flight 990 wasn't fully comprehensible to the investigators in Washington. Understanding what passed between the pilot - who'd returned to the cockpit after an unexplained absence to find the plane in a death plunge - and whichever crew member had put the Boeing 767 into its final maneuver requires a nuanced, idiomatic interpretation that would require Egyptian analysis. In the meantime, Mr. Freeh may be wishing that Mulder and Scully were...