Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kubrick's Lolita--an eroticism created through words and glances and not a single scene of naked flesh. As for violence, a director like Quentin Tarantino is put to shame when one looks at the cold but gleeful presentation of crime and pain in A Clockwork Orange, which was withdrawn from theaters in England...
...Quad, Jeffrey S. Gleason '99 describes Pforzheimer House as "reclusive and withdrawn and studious" before randomization...
...complained, but for the next five months found their concerns brushed aside. LaShonda was forced to sit next to the boy for months despite his lewd comments and his attempts to grab her genitals. The principal responded with a lackluster promise to "threaten him a little harder." LaShonda became withdrawn and depressed, and one night her father found a suicide note. Even now, six years later and in 11th grade, his daughter, he says, is still "not the same LaShonda...
...immediate air strike isn't an option for NATO, because that would endanger the 700 monitors introduced to the region as part of the cease-fire deal brokered by Richard Holbrooke last November. But even if the monitors were withdrawn, it's not clear that the U.S. and its allies would attack: Many Western observers believe that only ground troops could keep the peace in Kosovo -- and that's a non-starter, since the Western alliance has no appetite for wading into an intractable civil war between the Serb authorities and the independence-minded Kosovar Albanians. And with no firm...
...opening salvo of a battle that would rage for months--and which smolders to this day. To patent such abbreviated genetic material, said Watson, was "sheer lunacy" that would entangle genetic research in legal issues and slow it to a crawl. When the battle was over, the NIH had withdrawn the patent proposal and Watson was no longer head of the genome project. Gone too were Venter and his wife and collaborator, Claire Fraser...