Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What happened to Carol Trowbridge reveals so much about why Harvard as a landlord needs an all too cozy relationship with the University's legal counsel. To keep Trowbridge silent and her story under wraps, Harvard lawyers drafted a contractual agreement whereby the plaintiff and the defendant could never ever say another word about the events at 122 Mt. Auburn...
...Peres. They charged that his U.N. speech violated a Labor-Likud policy that opposes an international Middle East peace conference. Unless Peres offered "clarifications," Levy and Sharon threatened that Likud would bolt the government. Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens kept silent...
...translator, Buscetta began his testimony by describing the Mafia's structure and bylaws. Both in Sicily, where it began, and in the U.S., the criminal organization at one time imposed a strict, almost old-fashioned, moral code. Starting as a low-ranking "soldier," Buscetta said, "I was to be silent, not to look at other men's wives or women, not to steal." All "men of honor," as members called themselves, pledged never to lie to one another. Buscetta was suspended from Mafia activities for six months in 1952 for breaking the code. "I betrayed my wife," he admitted. Buscetta...
...Potkul fumbled the ball and the stadium fell silent. Three plays later, Harvard quarterback Brian White found tight end Jim Morris streaking across the middle all alone and the visitors trailed, 17-12. After a penalty on a two-point conversion effort, Steinberg missed a long point-after...
...religious extremism. In Lebanon, fundamentalism is a product of this long war. When the authority of the state collapsed, many extremist elements emerged. Lebanon is basically a tolerant country. Once the authority of the state is restored, these elements will be greatly reduced, and the Lebanese silent majority, the tolerant majority, will be heard again...