Word: agenda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Council, led by Ryan A. Petersen ’08, brought the issue of calendar reform to the forefront of its agenda. Most significantly, its proposal sought to push fall semester final exams to before winter break...
...clock is ticking. The U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year. And the American negotiators have only until November to pursue the Bush administration's agenda without having to factor in the plans of a new president...
...Elena Kagan has said in the past that Harvard has "no plans" to move to a grading method similar to Yale's. In other law school news, Kagan announced this week that the Law School had raised over $450 million in its capital campaign, intended to finance an ambitious agenda that includes new buildings, an expanded faculty, and more generous financial aid programs. The five-year campaign, which had a target of $400 million and was launched in the summer of 2003, is the largest fundraising drive in the history of legal education. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou...
...essential part of making globalization work." For Blair, the goal is to rescue faith from the twin challenges of irrelevance-the idea that religion is no more than an interesting aspect of history-and extremism. Blair and those working with him think religion is key to the global agenda. "You can't hope to understand what's happening in the world if you don't know that religion is a very important force in people's lives," says Ruth Turner, 37, formerly a top aide to Blair in 10 Downing Street, who will head the foundation. "You can't make...
...senses, however, that it is not just relations among faiths that Blair wants to influence. It is also the relationship between those who rejoice in their faith and those who think religion is something quaint, the stuff of history books. And here Blair's religious agenda intersects another of his concerns: the growing distance between U.S. and European attitudes toward the world...