Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial writer offended other minority groups when he attempted to project what he perceived to be problems of one group onto all of the minority organizations at Harvard. One must wonder why he wrote that these groups, as a rule, segregate themselves, when he attempts to cite no other examples other than the Asian American Association? Could it be he doesn't know what he's talking about...
...known when U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland will rule on the request for a trustee...
Among the dark, walled fortresses of U.S. penology, Stillwater is considered a well-secured country club with a relatively mellow population. It is a kind of felon's Lake Wobegon where gangs do not rule and sex offenders outnumber those who have killed; a prison where only the guards wear uniforms and only four of them carry firearms. Other U.S. prisons are overcrowded, but each Stillwater resident has a cell of his own, a TV if he chooses to buy one, and ready access to a dozen phones mounted on the wall beneath the towering, barred windows of the cellblock...
Clark gained national attention -- including a TIME cover -- by bullying students and faculty into a state of moral grace and academic excellence. His well-publicized symbols of rule were a bullhorn and a baseball bat. His lessons included expelling 300 of the worst troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's doors to bar drug dealers and -- whooping audience delight here -- inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict...
...Johnson was apparently no exception to the rule. Francis said that in the fall of 1981 he explained to Johnson that anabolic steroids, artificial hormones that enhance the body's ability to grow muscle, marked the only path to international success in the explosive 100-meter dash. After some hesitation, said the coach, Johnson agreed to try the drugs...