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...continued to meet with foreign journalists after he was released from prison, and he clearly violated the terms of his parole." Wei's harsh 14 year sentence is intended to provide a warning both to other dissidents and to the West, notes Bloch, from a government beset by internal turmoil and international disapproval of its human rights record...
Gingrich is also a revolutionary leader, a man comfortable with the kind of turmoil required to bring about change. But revolutionary leaders in America, even when they are successful, usually flare for only a year or two, and then they tend to fade. Gingrich may be able to resist that, but history suggests that would be very tough...
...administration is plunging the entire Yale community into turmoil for no good reason," Ann Wierda, a graduate student in the English department, said in a GESO press release. "We find ourselves in the difficult and unfortunate position of having to contemplate strong action to bring Yale to the negotiating table...
...Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped midwife complex animal life by infusing the primordial oceans with oxygen...
...Paul Fisher, who had four points and three rebounds while playing strong in the first half, fouled out on a trash-talking altercation with a Cadet. The referees called a double technical and Fisher's technical became his fifth personal foul. However, the Crimson lead still grew through this turmoil as Harvard continued to control the boards--by a final 46-to-28 advantage--and continued to put the points up. When Snowden finished a fast break with an emphatic slam with four minutes to go to make the score 76-48, the game was long over...