Word: offing
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"How can we coordinate and manage in ways that benefit the University as a whole?" Thompson asks. "That's both a problem and an opportunity. That's not so much the result of the University expanding...that's a result of the world out there expanding."
Some men get wiser with age, others, it seems, only drift farther and farther from the neighborhood of good sense. Jesse Jackson, who has been relatively quiet since last spring's sojourn with Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, is back in the headlines, this time crusading on behalf of high-school...
Enter Jesse Jackson. Jackson, from whatever perch he surveys potential opportunities for race-baiting, took notice of this clear-cut disciplinary case and decided that it was once again time to rattle his rusting saber. He descended upon Decatur, and along with his Rainbow/PUSH coalition organized protests and filed a...
In the immediate aftermath of Jackson's intervention, school officials sought to avoid the cost of a lengthy battle by crafting a compromise. They reduced the term of the students' expulsion to one year, and further, they arranged for the students to attend alternative schools during that time. Perhaps not...
Jackson continued with his lawsuit, demanding the full re-instatement of the students. Apparently it was completely inconsequential that these young men had engaged in behavior that had endangered the lives of hundreds. In Jackson's eyes, it seems that they deserved no punishment whatsoever.