Word: protected
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350th planners are trying to protect the nearly 30,000 attending Harvard's party from these truths. But that should come as no surprise to alums: Each received a letter last spring that subtly instructed against voting for three Board of Overseers candidates who called for Harvard's divestiture of South Africa-related stocks. A university that believes graduates must be told how to vote should have no qualms about sheltering them from unpleasantnesses...
...they make and attend, are fast, rough, raunchy lovers -- backseat studs and born- to-thrill prom queens. Canadians cannot decide whether to imitate American energy or British reserve. Germans are dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their women from wild animals." As for the French, who didn't invent love but certainly know how to market it, they negotiate their affairs with a roue's smile and a fatalist's shrug. C'est l'amour...
...from the book. In addition, Britain is pursuing a civil suit in Australia, Wright's home since 1976, to prevent a subsidiary of the British publishing house Heinemann from issuing the book there. The government argues that publication could cause a loss of confidence in MI5's "ability to protect classified information...
...seems the sharpest of paradoxes: an independent judiciary housed within an authoritarian state. Yet at various times over the past four decades, South Africa's courts have challenged the government in an effort to protect the civil liberties of the country's black majority. Last week, as a three-judge panel of the Natal Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the state of emergency, the world saw a bold example of a maverick judicial system in action...
While the new judicial boldness has heartened opponents of apartheid, there are still many obstacles. In South Africa, whose legal system resembles Britain's, there is no constitutional bill of rights through which the courts can protect individuals, and the Parliament is supreme. Hence judges are bound to enforce all its laws, however capricious they may seem. The courts can only challenge statutes on technical grounds, as happened in the recent flurry of decisions...