Word: broads
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...Auburn Street is the pinnacle of this violation. A broad open catwalk with unlimited perches presents various balconies with premium views: the Office for the Arts, Let's Go, Claverly steps, the Lampoon, the Spee, the Phoenix and the Fly among others. Hillel? Don't tell me M. Foucault wouldn't have something to say about that...
Keeping a promise he made after last year's failed attempt to bring capital punishment back to the Commonwealth, Governor A. Paul Cellucci--now more confused than ever--has proposed a broad bill to make conviction of some 16 categories of murder punishable by death. Together with Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift, Cellucci seems to be relying solely on the horror of isolated incidents to win support for a cause which lacks both practical and ideological grounds...
Students, observers, etc. often conceive of Harvard as one mammoth entity, and not as a conglomeration of separate interests. This is sensibly done for the sake of convenience. One broad distinction that deserves to be reiterated, however, is the separation between the administration and the Faculty (and by extension, the students); because despite how closely linked these two groups are and how much overlap there is between them, their interests are very different...
...view of the realities of the new environment created by the increasing global role of the emerging-market economies. It would not be sufficient to transform the IMF into a lender of last resort at the global level. Such a move would also require the elaboration of a broad consensus toward a new global financial infrastructure that will ensure a smoother and more transparent functioning of the institutions and a better ability to identify potential crises and contain them...
...budget, raising the minimum wage, promoting peace in Ireland and elsewhere. But this year, when his moral authority was systematically stripped, we could not help being aware of the governing he didn't do despite spectacular opportunities. He could dispatch planes to Iraq but not troops, nothing requiring broad debate and consent. He could not trade pet projects with Republicans in Congress--I'll give you school vouchers if you give me the patients' bill of rights--because he could not afford to annoy any Democrats. And so, in the end, there was no tobacco deal...