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...1/2-mile course in six hours and 10 minutes to claim the world championship. He plans to compete on the professional long-distance circuit after graduation . Last summer he had opportunities to earn money swimming in long-distance races but could not compete because of the Ivy League's stringent eligibility requirements...
...double act of horror left a tangle of questions. Both truck drivers blew themselves to smithereens when they swerved madly into their targets and detonated their deadly cargoes. But who was behind the attacks? Why was security not more stringent, especially after a nearly identical attack hit the U.S. embassy in Beirut last April, killing 63 people? Can the safety of the Marines now be ensured...
...Gris the classicist who prevails. Not in his decorative form: Gris' compositional habits turn the corner from cubism into art deco and prepare the decorative style of the '20s, but that is secondary. Rather, what one admires is the stringent purity of his vision and the economy with which he deployed it. Conservative radical, or radical conservative? Both, at different times. If he had recovered from his slump in the '20s and lived an other 30 years, he might have turned out to be the equal of Mondrian...
...landlords counter that such a move would hurt the city economically. Thayer says there is sufficient capital risk in getting a project started that such stringent restriction would drive new development out of town. Laverty adds that a lack of development would decrease the tax base in the city...
...criminal justice system there are also stringent rules surrounding the gathering and admissibility of evidence. The fairness of the investigation of a case is an important issue in the fairness of the overall proceedings. Harvard has no set procedures for investigating a case. Harvard presents the victim with its conclusions, but ordinarily allows no input from her or him during the investigation, and no response after the investigation. The victim has no means of verifying any of Harvard's findings in a case. This situation essentially places the burden of proof entirely on the victim--yet another violation...