Word: rule
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...bring more attention to the plight of Africans killed while opposing Portuguese colonial rule, about 50 members of PALC and the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro) planted 500 black crosses in Harvard Yard March...
Magistrate Willy J. Davis refused to force the city to register the students, but did rule on Sept. 21 that supporting oneself is not a prerequisite for registering...
...prevent other resident tutors from similar predicaments, Kane said that the House ought to adopt "Kane's Rule," which would ensure that "no Eliot tutor shall be denied reappointment from office for the following academic year after January...
With 34 Law School professors, President Bok sends a letter to Congress that calls. President Nixon's busing proposals "a failure in leadership" and warns that "the two bills, if enacted, would sacrifice the enforcement of constitutional rights, impair the functions of the judiciary under a rule of law, and jeopardize the improved schooling for many, many children...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare...