Word: petitioners
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In addition to the six petition candidates running on a divestment slate, several among the dozen Harvard-nominated candidates delineate their views on financial aid, female representation on the faculty and divestment.
Lawyers for both sides showed up last week at a Houston appeals-court hearing, which had been mandated by the Supreme Court decision, on whether Texaco should be required to put up a bond for some $10 billion while continuing to appeal the 1985 Texas judgment. Protecting itself from such...
Children of the Arbat sheds light on the dark corner of Soviet history when Stalin ruled his country through fear. The title refers to a circle of young friends who live with their families in a building at 51 Arbat Street, near the center of Moscow. The main character is...
Up till now, the only fireworks have been provided by Crystal Beach residents, who have been squabbling over their local government since the city was incorporated in 1971. Texas Rangers were once called out to restore order at a tempestuous city-council meeting. Two campaigns to disincorporate Crystal Beach failed...
The issue that the Supreme Court will decide is a narrow one, whether to grant him a stay in order to consider his third petition to that court. But controversy has crystallized around the larger question -- as much ethical as legal -- of whether the U.S. is wrong to use Soviet...