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...Rakoff said faculty meetings typically draw about 50 of the 79 faculty members and that Friday's turnout was not uncommon...
...troops also were trigger-happy. "It was not uncommon for the 3-504 to use warning shots," an officer from another unit told investigators. "They are very quick shots." Once they fired on a vehicle, blowing out its back window, when it refused their order to halt. Inside were two Red Cross workers "who were fortunately not injured," the report said...
...leap from the FBI to Harvard isn't that uncommon. Former HUPD Chief Robert Tonis spent 27 years with the FBI before coming to Cambridge. The Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School have a number of faculty ties to the FBI. Law School Professor William J. Stuntz, a criminal law expert, sometimes lectures at the legendary Quantico Academy in Virginia, where special agents train. Alan A. Stone, Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at the Law School, has been a consultant for the FBI during crises like the stand-off between law enforcement officials and the Branch...
Dark skin doesn't guarantee protection. Though uncommon, melanoma does occur in men and women of African descent--usually on the palms, soles and underneath the nails...
There's nothing uncommon--or wrong--about a politician's working on behalf of his constituents; Lieberman's service is no different from a Michigan politician's protecting the auto industry or a Texas politician's looking out for big oil. But it helps explain his enormous popularity in Connecticut, the generous contributions he has received from its industries and some of the positions he has taken on their behalf...