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During the two-week trial—which started in August after almost a year-long delay—prosecutors and witnesses graphically described how Byrne punched Trombly in the face with closed fists, held him by the throat with one hand while striking him with the other and threw him across the room into a bench. Trombly’s jaw was broken in the incident, forcing him to eat through a straw for two weeks...
...involvement in campus organizations is one of the main reasons I never seriously explored studying abroad,” he says. “Groups often have year-long commitments and leadership structures that can create career tracks which are difficult to interrupt...
...LANKA A joint committee set up by President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should work out new power-sharing arrangements by Dec. 15, Kumaratunga's spokesman announced, and so end a bitter tussle between the two rivals that threatens to derail efforts to end the 20-year-long civil war. E.U. External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten travels to Colombo this week to help resolve the three-week-old crisis, sparked by Kumaratunga's accusation that Wickremesinghe's government has been too lenient in peace negotiations with Tamil Tiger rebels. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ay Caramba, it's Tony...
...wake of divisive year-long battle over the ultimate closure and merger of several of the district’s 15 elementary schools, vocal Cambridge parents promised to vote Walser down because of her support of the consolidation plan...
...rise of English studies—which isn’t to blame the [universities], of course.” Wood doesn’t ascribe to the “anti-intellectual schtick” of writers like Gore Vidal or Saul Bellow—he sees his year-long guest lectureship at Harvard as a chance to broaden the horizons of many undergraduates...