Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colleges around the country. The purpose, says Executive Director Laszlo Csorba, 22, is to ensure "balance and a livelier classroom discussion." As it is, charges the A.I.A., some 10,000 Marxist professors are imposing their views on American students. But to academics like University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, the A.I.A.'s work amounts to "ideological espionage." Frank Vandiver, president of Texas A&M, has warned, "One never knows who is being assaulted in this kind of spying. Nothing can ruin a university faster than fear...
...moderator on last year's series The Constitution: A Delicate Balance. His academic rise has been dramatic. After getting his LL.B. at Yale in 1966, Schmidt clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren, joined the Columbia faculty in 1969. Before being named dean in 1984, he had become Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional...
...forcefully during last year's campaign to incorporate. While the gay-rights issue got most of the ink in the press, the main push for cityhood came from tenants demanding rent control. While only 25% to 35% of West Hollywood's residents are homosexual, 85% are renters. Says Ron Stone, 38, a former U.S. Senate aide and father of the cityhood campaign: "Without a coalition of renters and gays, we would not have a city today...
...Hampshire wing Katey Stone followed Ferry's goal three minutes later with a two-ft. slapshot...
...film unfolds with various disjointed shots of Benares and its human and animal inhabitants. A farmer picks orange flowers; strong, muscular bodies chop wood; two men assemble a bamboo ladder; white-robed workers hose down flat stone; holy men chant cryptic chants; a small, squeaky boat glides over the river. Then come the bodies, ushering in with them the audience's epiphany. Bodies covered with orange flowers, bodies over flames, bodies on top of bamboo ladders--suddenly, the disjointed pictorial congeals into a single entity. Death. Everyone in this Hindu society lives and labors for their holy deceased...