Word: affective
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Petersen said yesterday that he believes the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with its 1982 vote, remains “the sole authority that could affect Undergraduate Council funding,” and he has said that Pilbeam overstepped his authority as an official of the College by ending the party grant system...
...having Bell's palsy affect who you are today? -Spencer Navejar, Provo, UtahFreshman year in high school is a bad time to have half your face paralyzed, but it helped me develop more of a personality. You have to make fun of yourself, or else you're going to have a really rough life...
...greatest unknown is the degree to which voter apathy will affect the race. With Vitter recently shamed by revelations that he had previously paid prostitutes for sex, U.S. Congressman William Jefferson facing trial for corruption in January, and Nagin and Blanco considered by many to be irrelevant at best and outright failures at worst, voters may have decided that the entire electoral process is pointless. "I would contend that we're headed for a historically low turnout, which is the opposite of what we would have expected in Louisiana in 2007," says Shreveport demographer and political analyst Elliott Stonecipher...
Historically, Harvard has been reluctant to let human rights considerations affect its investment decisions. But on rare occasions, the University has dropped its holdings in firms that have close ties to particularly reprehensible regimes. In response to the Darfur genocide, Harvard sold its stake in the oil company PetroChina in 2005. The Harvard Corporation, the school’s seven-member senior governing body, cited a “unique pattern of circumstances relating PetroChina to the crisis in Sudan”: oil revenues from a PetroChina-backed project have funded Sudanese weapons purchases, enabling the regime to slaughter innocent...
...think of what we can do.” Last week, University President Drew G. Faust announced her intention to expand financial aid offerings to students at several of the graduate schools at Harvard. Without offering specifics, Fitzsimmons said he expected this University-wide push to affect the College’s aid programs. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...