Word: turmoils
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...turmoil is political in character or international in scope. At Stanford University last week, some 250 students and faculty demonstrated against the presence of a Playboy magazine representative shopping for willing student bodies for a picture spread called "Girls of the PAC-10." At the University of Texas at Austin, 2,000 students marched to the state capitol building to protest a proposed tuition hike. The Reagan Administration's proposed 20% cut in student loans and grants, which has stimulated protests, also seems to have catalyzed more general student dissent and discontent...
...title Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin was awarded last week to the third-place contestant after the winner was forced to give back her crown and the first runner-up refused to take it. Why the pageant turmoil? Officials said Janeal Lee, 30, a scooter-dependent teacher with muscular dystrophy who can still walk about 50 feet a day, violated a rule against appearing in public out of her wheelchair. "Every year there are tasks I have to give up doing because of my disease," says Lee. "I guess when it progresses enough, I'd be able to enter [the contest] again...
Meanwhile, Dr. Eva Rojas (Cruz) of the World Health Organization, the latest in a proud line of pouty academic vixens, discovers a horrible, mysterious plague that seems to be originating from Mali, a republic currently locked in bloody internal turmoil...
...added, “it is suggestive of the type of turmoil and decision making that led to the departures of particularly West, Morgan, and Bobo, which are continuing to influence the direction of this University...
After a clip of Ted Kennedy explaining why he canceled a meeting with the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, saying he knew when "to hold 'em and when to fold 'em": "There you have it. Years of religious turmoil boiled down to a Kenny Rogers lyric." --JON STEWART