Word: affirmativeness
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...added that the portrait’s installation in the Faculty Room—only the third portrait of a woman to decorate its walls—helps to affirm that “Radcliffe College did not just disappear in 1999, but is now part of the history of Harvard...
Kirby said the portrait’s placement in the Faculty Room helps to affirm the Harvard Faculty’s position as “strong and diverse...
...evils of Physics 11a sections, students at Qatar University won’t even believe you; and students from Beirut University might angrily demand that you try a couple classes in his shoes. Not to mention that any non-college educated person in any foreign country will immediately affirm their conception of Americans as spoiled if you pine away about your tough life on the banks of the Charles. Or at least that was my perception when I talked to some of these people this summer...
...dispatch of air-defense systems to Turkey before the invasion of Iraq. So there was an inevitable whiff of irony around French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie's tour earlier this month of Kosovo and Afghanistan, two hot spots where the alliance is currently active, to affirm France's abiding commitment to NATO. But underneath the irony is real iron: the Minister has solid military facts to flaunt. In Pristina, she attended the formal handover of command of Kosovo's more than 18,000 NATO peacekeepers to French Lieut. General Yves de Kermabon. Then she flew to Kabul...
...secular republic is always more important than ethnic and religious identity - is waking up to an increasingly atomized reality. "A man like Chirac still lives in a republican world," says novelist Michaël Sebban. "When he's confronted by anti-Semitism all he can do is affirm the republican values of equality and fraternity. But it's like pressing a button that doesn't work anymore." Especially in the socially underprivileged banlieues, where Jewish-Muslim tension is highest, the appeal to shared citizenship is more apt to reap mockery than reverence. "Being a citizen of France used to give...