Word: ruling
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Most of the world condemned the Vietnamese attack on Cambodia in 1978 as an act of aggression. But whatever Hanoi's predatory motives, the invasion had one positive consequence: it ended the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge and drove them into the jungle. There they lurk today, hoping to return to power in the new round of fighting that has become almost inevitable since an international peace conference broke down in Paris in August...
...says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It wants legislatures to spell out how laws should apply." The attitude appalls many liberals, who argue that the basic purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the weak and unpopular from the tyranny of majority rule by legislatures. But the court's deference toward the political branches cheers many conservatives. "That's democracy," insists court commentator Bruce Fein. "Let the political process fill its traditional role...
...Dalai Lama, 54, was born Tenzin Gyatso. The son of a poor farmer, he was named spiritual and temporal ruler as the 14th Dalai Lama at age five, just before the Chinese army marched into Tibet. He fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule...
...Club is one of the nine all-male final clubs whose roots at Harvard go back to the late 19th century. In 1984, the University severed ties with the clubs because they violated a College rule against single-sex organizations. Schkolnick, who conceived the idea with other editors of the liberal monthly Perspective, filed her complaint with MCAD in 1987, saying she was unable to hold membership in the club because of her gender. The student group Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) was added as a co-complainant in April of this year...
...made that rule, anyway...