Word: standoff
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...called Harvard Law School (HLS) professor emeritus Roger D. Fisher `43 about the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) standoff in the Yard...
...current standoff, Bordone says, is not following these ground rules...
...former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic been killed in the two-day standoff with Yugoslav authorities that preceded his arrest, the people of Yugoslavia would have never discovered the full extent of the horror and destruction of more than a decade of his rule. The crimes, both those committed against his own people and against others in the name of his people, would fail to receive proper attention in the absence of the principal perpetrator. The opportunity to use Milosevic’s trial as one of the building blocks of democracy in Yugoslavia and ethnic tolerance in the Balkans would...
...TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson weighs in on the Vieques standoff...
...mean to trivialize the U.S.-China spyplane standoff. I know that there was more to this kafuffle than China’s uncharacteristically humane treatment of the 24-member crew of the damaged jet. In addition to submitting our men and women to a nine-day “ordeal,” they also kept our plane...