Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program staff say strict rules and stiff consequences for the students, most of whom are still in high school and are under 21, are necessary to keep students out of serious trouble...
According to the student handbook, serious disciplinary cases are first referred to the Dean's Council, which consists of Summer School Dean Peter Buck, Dean of Students Christopher Queen, Director of the SSP Elizabeth Chapman Hewitt and the SSP's assistant deans...
...better head of hair than Gore?s, Bradley?s and McCain?s put together. Women love him, or at least they used to, and wife Annette Bening has already played in a couple of movies set in the White House "Mars Attacks!" "The American President"). Plus, Beatty is serious about politics and excited about an issue, campaign finance reform, that?s heading toward the front burner and makes Al Gore queasy. "Its tentacles reach into every other issue," he told the Times. "I fear we're getting closer to a plutocracy than we want to, and I believe that deep...
...There?s obviously great concern that this could grow into a more serious conflict," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "With tensions already so high after the Kashmir crisis it?s disturbing that Indian jets would shoot down a propeller-driven Pakistani plane rather than force it out of their air space. Such an action looks calculated to increase tension rather than reduce it." Although Pakistan and India have developed extensive mechanisms to prevent their constant low-level clashes spiraling into war, the latest confrontation only widens the danger. Despite Pakistan?s withdrawal from the Indian side of Kashmir last...
...recent fighting in Kashmir has raised tempers on both sides," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "The fact that 16 people were killed will create serious pressure in Pakistan for some retaliation." Details of the incident remain sketchy, and are likely to be hotly contested. "Indians may ask why a routine coastal patrol was carrying 16 people," says Rahman. New Delhi maintains a tight vigil on its airspace in the coastal border region, and has on numerous occasions forced unauthorized intruders to land. "Normal practice is for Indian planes to force intruders to identify themselves, order them...