Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, in the wake of Watergate, at about the time the press was riding highest, the pendulum started to swing back. Courts began to narrow the definition of public figures. Chief Justice Warren Burger told trial judges, in a footnote to a 1979 opinion, that too many libel cases were being summarily dismissed--that is, rejected before going to trial. For journalists, the most nettlesome result of the court's shift in mood came in a ruling during the pretrial discovery phase of a suit brought by retired Army Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert, a former field officer in Viet...
Amid joy and cheering from the local populace, Israel completed the first stage of its planned three-phase withdrawal from Lebanon two weeks ago. But in the army's wake came new visitors to raise ominous questions about the region's future. Two days after the last Israeli convoy of some 40 vehicles had left Sidon (pop. 200,000), the largest city in southern Lebanon, there was a brief invasion of another kind. Into Sidon, by bus from Beirut, came a ragtag army of Shi'ite Muslim militants, swearing vengeance against Israel and Lebanon's Christian leadership and vowing...
...alumnus who had been president of Afro in the late sixties, Skip Griffin '70, in an interview prior to the forum said he is disappointed with the progress the University has made with the the Department of Afro-American Studies, established in the wake of protest that his group...
...anxiety--or most of it--will end in less than three weeks, when freshmen wake up to a computer printout on their doorstep. If the lottery goes as in years past, nearly 70 percent will be wearing smiles to break fast as they ponder life for the next years in their first-choice House
...wake of the recent announcement that Professor of Government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. will resign over accusations of sexual harassment, it is necessary at this time to put the incident in its proper perspective. First, his resignation should and, indeed, must serve as a clear signal that sex discrimination and sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination--will not, cannot, and ought not be legated at a University, such as Harvard, which has hopes of truly achieving its goals of co-education. Second, because neither the exact nature of the allegation concerning Hibbs or the extent to which...