Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...intellectual farce that all too often substitutes for education has not escaped official notice. The Core Curriculum is a well-intentioned response to the Harvard Faculty's suspicion that many students are receiving their diplomas without any significant intellectual growth. Well-intentioned, but insufficient. Henry Rosovsky has battled hard for the Core, and is justly proud of guiding it through a touchy Faculty, eager to protect its educational preserves. But he has spent a great deal of his political capital without addressing the root of the problem--he has brought the great Harvard minds before undergraduates, but failed to insure...
...first the police reports aroused little suspicion. At 1:59 on the morning of Dec. 17, a black male was said to have crashed his Kawasaki motorcycle in Miami while dodging police at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. He supposedly battled policemen, who tried to subdue him with nightsticks. Four days later he died of head injuries, but by then the story was taking quite a different turn...
...survival, three years after the murder. The Pink soon finds that the coffin in which J.W. Booth has been interred is empty. He also finds that Washington City, as it was then called, is a nest of intrigue and calumny. Even the greatest names are not free of suspicion. Cosgrove, posing as a salesman of a potent potion called Hostetter Bitters, works out of a safe house on K Street...
...matters of Islamic scholarship he is less profound than some of his fellow ayatullahs?notably Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Numerous Western scholars who have spoken to him have been shocked by his ignorance of modern life. He knows little of the non-Muslim world, and regards it with morbid suspicion...
...sending to Kurdistan a specially formed division made up of army and air force units. Why not a regular army division? Either because the army did not have a unit that was deemed capable of doing the job, or because the government does not altogether trust the army. Suspicion that the army has not yet proved its loyalty is a basic motive behind the formation of the Pasdaran (literally, Guardians), the revolutionary militia...