Word: vigilanteism
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After extensive discussion, the faculty capped the overall number of honors at 60 percent, voted to switch grade point averages from a 15- to a four-point scale, and formally committed to enforcing more vigilant grading practices.
Roses is hypnotic to watch now, but it will probably get even better. It requires the kind of elegant, vigilant partnering usually associated with classical ballet and not much required in Taylor's lexicon. The dancers move through their roles in a slightly gingerly fashion, but they will loosen up...
Thaksin hasn't taken the bait. While the violence continued last week with a spate of bombings and shootings that left four people dead, the Prime Minister ruled out the idea of retaliating with force against the insurgents. At the same time he ordered a dramatic increase in security at...
In November the OSA and the UC planned a Harvard-Yale tailgate in the face of mounting pressure from an increasingly vigilant Boston Police Department. The OSA eventually footed the bill for more than $20,000 of the costs for the event.
Simcox bristles at the term vigilante, saying that his group is not detaining anyone but only fulfilling the President's post--Sept. 11 request that all Americans remain vigilant--and, in the process, providing a release valve for popular outrage. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, meanwhile, tell TIME they will announce a "significant increase in resources" this week to address the influx of illegal immigrants still crossing by land in Arizona. --By Brian Bennett