Word: robert
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According to Robert P. Jackson, director of minority recruitment and associate director of admissions at Yale, the Elis are committed to attracting minorities to New Haven...
...only sensible alternative, which House Speaker-elect Robert L. Livingston has irresponsibly vowed to block from coming to a vote, is censure. Moderate Republicans hold the key to rejecting the articles of impeachment and pressuring Livingston to allow censure to come to the floor. To impeach Clinton this week would be to belittle the awesome mechanism our Founders provided for the removal of our most powerful officer...
...movie develops an original moral theme with enough subtlety so that the film does not end in the typical Hollywood way, with the main character summing up the importance of the film in an ostensibly stirring speech. It also take a renegade view towards violence. The director, Robert Benigni, makes it clear that people are about to die and spares us the gore. As a result, Benigni creates more sympathy for their pain than the desensitizing violence of Hollywood murders...
...piracy, when any nation could deal with the brigands of the high seas. These days there is considerable agreement that systematic torture and genocide are such heinous crimes that any country should be free to try those who are accused of them. "Some crimes go beyond boundaries," says Robert Pastor, a member of Carter's National Security Council, "and we ought to pursue them that way." So rather than extradite Pinochet, Britain could try him in an English court...
...supposed to be an innocent bystander responsible for "housekeeping" functions--like preventing ulcers. At the FDA meeting, proponents of the old-style pain killers suggested that that theory might be too simplistic. "The whole area of information about cox-1 and -2 is an evolving field," says Dr. Robert Palmer of SmithKline Beecham, which manufactures Relafen, a popular arthritis drug. "There's probably a whole lot of functions we don't know about...