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...cases, which she filed without the aid of a legal professional, were dismissed as groundless, Kaufman said...
...week after admitting its scientists had enriched a small amount of uranium in 2000 at a different facility in the city of Taejon, 120 km south of Seoul. The government went into strenuous spin mode, especially when accused of covering up the nuclear fiddling, a charge that was "groundless and unsubstantiated," according to the Foreign Ministry. But official explanations for how the nuclear materials got produced became more threadbare through the week. The uranium experiment in 2000 was supposedly carried out by a small group of very junior scientists in Taejon. But last week, a Geneva-based diplomatic source disclosed...
...with a Barbarian, a 2003 book published only in Russian, he voiced concern that the Christian West was losing its cultural struggle with Islam: "While Muslims diligently adhere to their faith, their traditions and the principle of families with many children, our political leaders are filling our heads with groundless and godless liberalism." More liberal Forbes Russia staffers frequently debated his nationalist views with him, Bershidsky says: "Paul was very pro-Russia, and being a descendant of the old nobility wanted Russia to be a great power. He had a problem with Islam." This has led to speculation that Chechens...
...time the Class of 2004 returns for its 25th reunion, Harvard undergraduates will face a far more serious problem—that the College they attend will no longer seriously value anything other than number crunching and fact absorption. I hope that it is nothing more a groundless fear. But it is an ironic truth that if Harvard totally discards its aristocratic heritage, the College that remains will be a meritocracy of limited merit...
...Their censorship orders are totally groundless, absolutely arbitrary, at odds with the basic standards of civilization, and as counter to scientific common sense as witches and wizardry." JIAO GUOBIAO, a journalism professor at Peking University in Beijing, criticizing the Chinese Communist Party's censorship policies in a banned essay that has been circulated widely on the Internet...