Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newest roadblock the masters have thrown up to universal keycard access is the College's policy that there be two locked doors between the street and every student's room. Fine, the two-door policy sounds good on admissions tours, and seems to make some safety sense. But who ever called for the locks to be removed? Our point--the students' point--all along has been that giving all Harvard students access to an entryway door does not diminish the degree to which that door can be considered locked. If anything, because we will be naturally both more likely...
...than 80 suspected areas for clandestine storage of the killer bugs and recently have been trying to get into presidential offices and Republican Guard and intelligence bases where some bioweapons may be concealed. Richard Butler, executive chairman of the Special Commission, thinks the Iraqis may have raised the latest roadblock to the inspectors because they were getting close to their target...
...Catamounts provide an added roadblock for the Crimson in their front line of Erin Perrin, Martin St. Louis and J.C. Ruid...
...patients in chronic pain, and that Clinton's embrace of slogans rather than solutions is worrisome. But if the federal government is to intervene, it should join Arizona and California in interpreting how the marijuana propositions should be enacted within the states--neither federalizing nor standing as a politicized roadblock to marijuana's medical...
...memories are not eroded by the years--they just burn brighter in the mind of Peter Cecil Jones, who saw Steve Biko led to his death. He remembers the summer night in August 1977 and the roadblock on the highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons...