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...that Japan would consider imposing economic sanctions immediately, and request that the U.N. Security Council take action, if North Korea decided to test a missile. Any test would violate a voluntary North Korean moratorium on long-range missile tests, Aso said, adding that protest from Japan would be "very vehement...
...Crimson faced vehement criticism for publishing the article, but to do otherwise would have been a disservice to journalism. Every story, however small, represents a potentiality. Sometimes a story’s potential is clear. Seymour Hersh’s article on Abu Ghraib “made” the news while changing American policy. Other times, a story’s potential is harder to judge. An article in a small Beirut newspaper led to the Iran-Contra scandal. Closer to home, who could have guessed that an article about “intrinsic aptitudes” nearly...
...most active and established campus organizations, the Foundation was initially met with vehement opposition by minority leaders themselves when it was first proposed a quarter of a century...
...Democratic political operative, served as the Review’s president in 1977. It was then that the saga of the Law Review’s affirmative action program began, when the editors adopted a race- and gender-conscious policy by a 45 to 39 vote, to the vehement opposition of some faculty members. Several months of intense debate and negotiations ensued between the Review and the faculty, at the end of which the Review began for the first time considering factors other than merit in choosing its members.AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONPrior to 1981, law students could join the Review either...
...Shakespeare.” A current student of Birkerts’s—who prefers to remain anonymous—says his teacher “is such a nice guy...really chill,” and was “surprised” to read such a vehement attack on Birkerts. Birkerts hasn’t planned any retributive acts thus far. He tends to shy away from “Tarantino-criticisms”—all effect and high body count...