Word: broking
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...with the length of the meeting—the UC’s last for the year—nearing two hours, the proceedings were brought to an abrupt end when Financial Committee Chair Alexander N. “Zander” Li ’08 broke the quorum necessary for voting, departing the Harvard Hall conference room where the meeting was held in protest over lagging debate on the UC floor...
...people in the room had influenced so many of us, we asked some honorees to talk about who had most influenced them. Michael Bloomberg, the innovative mayor of New York, paid tribute to Red Auerbach, the great coach of the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s who broke the color bar in the NBA. Elizabeth Edwards, the courageous wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, spoke movingly about her cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight." NBC News...
...Emperor was put on trial and charged-quite inaccurately-with being the evil genius behind an international Muslim conspiracy stretching from Constantinople, Mecca and Iran to the walls of the Red Fort in Delhi. Contrary to all the evidence that the uprising broke out first among the overwhelmingly Hindu sepoys, the British prosecutor argued that "to Musalman intrigues and Mohammedan conspiracy we may mainly attribute the dreadful calamities of the year 1857." Like some of the ideas propelling more recent adventures in the East, this was a bigoted oversimplification of a complex reality...
...congressional investigation of the Justice Department deepens, Gonzales is certain to be getting more questions about the role that political appointees may have played in compromising the legally neutral mission of the department. Shortly before Goodling resigned, congressional sources say, she broke down in tears in the office of a colleague. "All I ever wanted to do," she sobbed, "was serve this President, this Administration, this department." What she didn't understand then was that she had her priorities backward...
...accused of shooting Jackson in Mack's Cafe, where a number of people fled after troopers and other law officers broke up a protest on the night of Feb. 18, 1965. Witnesses said the officers were clubbing people in an out-of-control attack that continued into the cafe, where they said Jackson was trying to protect his mother and grandfather when he was shot...