Word: threw
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...plan for an experimental school to apply for funding directly from the state without prior approval from local officials. The New Republic has chronicled the disaster of the charter schools over the past year or so. We have read of an Afrocentric high school in Washington, D.C. that threw a white journalist out of the school, hurling epithets. Elsewhere, a charter school is established to the history of Bayonne, New Jersey. Even Peterson admits that charter schools need to be regulated. So much for the discipline of the marketplace...
...Oxford Street resident reported that at 3:50 a.m. a woman who she knew punched her and threw her to the ground on Oxford Street...
...picture's pedigree offers fair warning. Its director is Master Meanie David Fincher (Seven). The writers are John Brancato and Michael Ferris, who threw Sandra Bullock into The Net. And the star is Michael Douglas, who has built a healthy career (Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Disclosure) playing bright, smuggish organization men for whom everything spins horribly out of whack...
...Major of the Army Gene McKinney. His investigator, Col. Robert Jarvis, recommended that the top enlisted soldier in the service be court-martialed over allegations of indecent assault, adultery and obstruction of justice ? all as expected. But at least McKinney will escape an extra charge of rape, which Jarvis threw...
...Fayed was not accused of breaking any law, and he and the Sultan denied the charges. Al Fayed bitterly attacked the report as a smear. "They could not accept that an Egyptian could own Harrods, so they threw mud at me," he once said. But acquaintances of his in Alexandria also describe the Fayeds as a modest family: al Fayed's father was a language teacher, and al Fayed grew up on the rougher side of town. He started as a small-time trader there, selling Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. In the early 1950s the future Saudi billionaire...