Word: rule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next came the finals against Cornell, in which the Crimson had to sweep the Big Red to win the title. In the first game, junior Heather Brown picked up where the other Brown left off, tossing a five-inning shutout as Harvard won by the eight-run slaughter rule...
Some students complained that the rule requiring senior tutors to hold another position in the University is unjust...
...also wonders whether Kabila will choose to rule by himself or open up Zairean politics to other parties. "I cannot tell you that we think he is a democrat," says Burns. Museveni was not pleased when Kabila visited him last month and said he was about to announce the names of those who would serve in his new government. "I asked him, 'What's the hurry?'" says Museveni. "We cannot run Zaire for him, but we can try to help him avoid mistakes." He fears Kabila wants to dominate the country until elections are held--who knows when--and warns...
...things. She is the withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten...
...when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down such laws. In what was perhaps the most ridiculous example of racial pigeonholing, Louisiana ordained that anyone with a "trace" of black ancestry would be classified as black. Then, in an ostensibly "humane" 1970 reform, it enacted the "one thirty-second rule," by which anyone with a single black great-great-great-great-grandparent and 31 white great-great-great-great-grandparents was legally black. That regulation went unchallenged until Susie Guillory Phipps, the wife of a wealthy seafood importer who had always considered herself white, got a look at her birth certificate...