Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This past September 17, a bleachers-clearing brawl erupted at the MacArthur-Eisenhower football game in central Illinois. Seven Decatur high school students participated in the mlee and were consequently expelled from school. Their participation in the rioting is not in dispute--in fact, it was captured on video tape--and if it were not for one entirely incidental detail, there just punishment would probably have been carried out without protest. Unfortunately for Decatur school officials, the students they expelled happen to be black...
...hospitality they have extended to the notorious Osama Bin Laden. Afghanistan has become by far the leading producer of the heroin sold in Europe. Despite the Koranic prohibitions against drug use the Taliban has embraced the trade, and taxes on its production keeps their government solvent. Many of the Central Asian republics of the former U.S.S.R. rightly fear that the Taliban will try to spread its influence into their Muslim populations...
...think that you can have both, the expansion of the University with interest and emphasis on the College as the core of the University," he says. "I am ever vigilant, but I'm not worried that the College losing its central place...
...neighbors' activism led to the demise of Harvard's attempt to build this kind of central facility 25 years ago. James Urban, the landscape architect involved in the current project, says that plan was less carefully planned than the new proposal...
...murder was the second murder in Cambridge in 1999. On Sept. 18, a 30-year-old Dorchester man was shot and killed outside the Hi-Fi Pizza store near Central Square following an argument with the occupants of a Jeep...