Word: preventive
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...minute that all of the historical evidence demonstrating the framers' intent to assert the essential civic right of the individual to protect his family and property did not exist (John Adams, class of 1755, and Thomas Jefferson, for example, were explicit about their beliefs; Adams insisted that Congress not "prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms"). Even if Second Amendment revisionists were right in arguing that the militia was the sole justification for the right to bear arms, they would still have to accept the fundamental Constitutional basis of that right...
According to Lewis, the Dean of FAS might be able to help coordinate leaves of absence to prevent problems like those which plagued Moral Reasoning this year. Only one course in Moral Reasoning is offered this term...
...spokesman Nicholas Burns urged Americans to leave, saying "the end game is approaching." U.S. troops were preparing to evacuate Americans from the capital. On Tuesday, Mobutu Sese Seko's government imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the city's residents. Although officials said the restrictions were imposed to prevent looting and unrest among civilians, it is government soldiers who have ransacked other cities as Kabila's troops advanced. Fearing that the final battle is near, shops and stalls at the central market closed early, while police roamed the downtown area, stopping people to demand bribes. Opposition parties, hoping...
...Cambridge has historically been open to people of all incomes and backgrounds," said Duehay. "We have always been an immigrant city, and now we have to try to prevent people from lower to middle-class backgrounds from being squeezed...
...plight of the refugees has raised disturbing questions about Kabila's intentions. Is he in control of his forces and therefore ordering revenge attacks on the Hutu, or is he a weak leader unable to prevent them? Says State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns: "We will hold Kabila responsible for the conduct of his own soldiers." Uganda's Museveni has been telling Kabila he was "spoiling" his reputation by treating the refugees so cruelly...