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...also found out that my assistant principal tread on dubious legal grounds when she emasculated my high school yearbook a little more than a year ago, though if I had known before, I doubt she would have been receptive to any protest. Even in California, where students enjoy most First Amendment protections on campus, the law is complicated enough for administrators to routinely brush it off with sloppy legal arguments that rarely get tested in court. When a judge does rule, the administrators almost invariably lose...
...Freedom), the first-ever Chechen feature film, shot on a $14,000 budget, with a mixture of Chechen and Georgian actors, a minimum of official permission and the tacit consent of local guerrillas. During last winter's filming, Pankisi was a little-known backwater where no Georgian policeman dared tread. Now it is the center of an ominous dispute between the Kremlin and Georgia, as Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze struggles to hold together his crumbling, corruption-ridden state in the face of pressure from Vladimir Putin, whose policy is informed by a mixture of geopolitical frustration and personal animosity. Putin...
Teddy’s shoeless ways no doubt conjure memories of some of the unsavory turf we all have had to tread at one time or another in our daily travels. Whether traversing a common room carpet in the aftermath of a 21st birthday party, the floor of any men’s bathroom—especially the perimeter of the toilet also known as the margin of error—or pits of flaming coals and boiling tar, one’s shoes are generally a comforting presence. Teddy, however, would disagree...
Like any road that one must tread alone, and without shoes, the path Teddy has traveled has not always been paved with red bricks. “Do I step on glass occasionally?” Teddy said. “Sure.” But he assured me that the process of extricating sharp objects is simple and straight-forward...much as surgical procedures were in the Dark Ages...
Harvard does tread a fine line, said Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey, since the University needs to maintain relationships and credibility with the State Department as it hammers out new post-Sept. 11 restrictions...