Word: scared
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Applying to officially leave Harvard to study abroad and receive credit in a foreign country is not a simple process. While there are no official deterrents, the quantity of paperwork does scare off many interested students, as does the possibility of not receiving credit for work done abroad—petitions for credit are submitted upon a student’s return to Harvard...
...soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took off his shoe, whacked it on his desk, and the bad-guy boss started to look an awful lot more like a small-time clown...
...days after Sept. 11, doomsday scenarios like a nuclear attack on Manhattan suddenly seemed plausible. But during the six months that followed, as the U.S. struck back and the anthrax scare petered out and the fires at Ground Zero finally died down, the national nightmare about another calamitous terrorist strike went away...
...dissuasive weaponry, Martin and his six colleagues of the Alpha Squad are a no-nonsense message to the cocaine dealers, a comfort to the locals and, in the end, probably whistling in the wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets, albeit temporarily. Arrest, he says, is not an option because the cocaine dealers - the vast majority of them in this part of town are West African asylum seekers - are "untouchable." For a start, drug use is not illegal in Switzerland, and possession of .2 grams...
...Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a team of legal scholars at the Internet clinics of Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley and University of San Francisco, have started a website to counteract what they call the “chilling effects” of such scare tactics on free speech in cyberspace...