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...plan would eliminate the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), a seldom-used body that some students say can be used to quash legitimate political protest...
French Premier Jacques Chirac did not mince words. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, his voice rising with scorn and anger, he denounced the "leprosy of terrorism" that has become a "systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face." There were those, said Chirac, who sought to excuse terrorism as a legitimate response to oppression, but such odious methods "rule out our confusing those actions with genuine resistance...
...have won it last week as No. 2 Miami went head to head with No. 1 Oklahoma while Testaverde at least seemed to be similarly engaged with Brian Bosworth. Events in college football have seldom been so clear cut. Bosworth is an unruly linebacker who prunes his head like a boxwood bush and streaks it with rainbows to spell out individuality. Even as its children have taken to emulating him, the Oklahoma Bible Belt has somehow been able to rationalize Bosworth, to forgive the occasional "loogie" he talks of spitting into opponents' faces, and to disregard some other troubling things...
...intensifying global competition. The major U.S. automakers have jointly produced autos with Japanese, British, French and German companies in order to share new technology and enter lucrative foreign markets. But until recently, notes Fiat Chairman Gianni Agnelli, "Italy is the only car-producing country in Europe where Detroit has seldom been...
...most other societies, an admission of human error might seem commonplace. But not in the Soviet Union, where for decades official failures have seldom been acknowledged, official sins seldom recognized. Disasters such as plane crashes and earthquakes are like trees falling in the forest when no one is present. No one ever hears the crash...