Word: ruling
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...communist boss Josip Broz Tito enough in 1974 to get himself fired from his professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica refused. Considered modest and honest, a true believer in democracy and the rule of law who once translated the Federalist Papers into Serbo-Croatian, he helped launch a small opposition party in 1992. The highest office he attained was a seat in the Serbian parliament from...
...Embry blames the uprising on uneven rule enforcement and poor management, and insists that better leadership and faculty selection will prevent a recurrence. He also believes that the school needs a mix of kids, not just ones who have been disruptive, and that Baraka needs to screen out students with serious psychological problems...
...wasn't joking, and it was as off-key in its own way as Dan Quayle's response in 1988 that the first thing he would do was pray. Like Quayle, Cheney has come to be seen as a drag on the ticket, violating the first rule of veepdom: Do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York...
...first-years should have the opportunity to take a seminar. In the disorienting world of large-lecture introductory courses and intimidating Cores, first-years often have little or no interaction with any of their professors. Crowded lectures in Sanders Theatre and the Science Center tend to be the rule, with the one exception being the expository writing courses...
...main obstacle to undergraduate involvement, Seth and Labonte say, is the Harvard rule that mandates that each organization must have a home faculty. They think the fact that they are overseen by GSAS may discourage participation from members of Harvard's other schools, including the College...