Word: retreating
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Many HoCo chairs say the new rules remained unclear to them until representatives from University Hall clarified the policy at a retreat for HoCo executives Sunday morning in Radcliffe Yard...
...Most of the chairs at the retreat hadn’t learned about the policy. Many didn’t know hard liquor was banned or that the party deadline was made earlier,” Murrell said, adding that, unlike Mather, “none of the other Houses had taken steps to enforce the policy...
Cabot HoCo Co-Chair Thomas R. Benson ’09 said that before last weekend’s retreat, he “knew that hard liquor was a very iffy area in the eyes of the College” but did not know that it was officially and explicitly prohibited at HoCo events...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy likes to adopt a Travis Bickle "you-talkin-to-me?" swagger when seeking to intimidate political rivals, protesters and the French media. But it remains to be seen whether Sarkozy's snarl will prompt a retreat by hardened rebel fighters in Chad. Amid a lull in the battle for control of the Chadian capital of N'Djamena on Tuesday, Sarkozy responded to rebel threats of renewed violence by warning, "If France must do its duty, it will - let no one doubt that...
...forces withdrew Sunday to the outskirts of the Chadian capital following a weekend of heavy fighting with government troops. The lull in the violence allowed the French Army to airlift over 800 foreigners out of Chad, 202 of whom touched down in Paris Sunday, tired but unharmed. The rebels retreated in the face of a successful counter-offensive mounted by units loyal to President Idriss Déby. But fears remained high in N'Djamena and abroad that the retreat is temporary and that the bloodletting may be far from over...