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...decision is the lightest one that the UCSA can give, short of finding the students innocent. Being on probation will not affect the students' permanent records unless they commit further infractions this semester...
...stop the Crimson power-play is to keep it off the ice. In other words, don't commit any penalties. This won't be easy for an RPI squad that prides itself on its close-checking, hard-hitting style...
Sosa said that the Salvadoran goverment often arrests and tortures innocent civilians and forces them to sign extra-judicial confessions of crimes that they did not commit...
Harvard lost two of its first three games--to Lehigh and Boston College--by a single point. In the B.C. game, the Crimson failed to commit an intentional foul in the closing seconds as the Eagles dribbled off the clock...
...from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around the border of Nicaragua; even, as Walter Mondale suggested during the 1984 campaign, to setting up a naval blockade to contain the Sandinistas. But why is it preferable so hugely to commit American resources? To station permanently American troops to serve as a trip wire? (That is how containment works in Europe: the principal function of American soldiers in forward positions is to die and thus bring the U.S. into any European war the Soviets might be tempted to start...