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...other white students, allegedly involved in the Feb. 7 incident following a dormitory party, withdrew from the university prior to the start of disciplinary hearings, she said...
...same time, Holmes a Court was forced to tear up his shopping list of future purchases. In February, he withdrew from a $337 million deal to buy a group of newspapers and radio stations from John Fairfax Ltd. But the most stunning move was his retreat from the long, often bitter struggle to gain control of Broken Hill, known as the Big Australian...
Gore, like much of the Southern political establishment, has banked his political future on Super Tuesday. He essentially withdrew from the races in New Hampshire and Iowa, concentrating his resources and stump time on the South. But Gore's strategy, like that of his region's, will likely be unsuccessful. In the weeks since New Hampshire, other candidates, too, have focused their attention on the South to the exclusion of the other eight states that hold primaries on Super Tuesday. And those efforts should be most beneficial to a liberal from Massachusetts, and a black activist based in Chicago...
...long after, the future vagabond and his brother were sent to boarding school in England where, he recalls, "as English boys who had barely heard of cricket we were natural targets." Classmates branded him a liar when he told them of warriors and lion hunts. Rejected, he withdrew into primal memories of Abyssinia...
After the Soviet government withdrew the mission's 260 Soviet employees 16 months ago to protest the expulsion of its diplomats from Washington, the State Department hired a private U.S. contractor to fill the vacancies. When the firm had trouble finding Russian-speaking American maintenance workers, it hit upon the idea of sending over budding Kremlinologists...