Word: cabal
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Outraged by the fact that their overworked proctors were not being given any money as payment for their services, a radical cabal of students enrolled in Harvard’s Secondary School Program decided on the morning of July 1 to form an organization called the Progressive Secondary School Program Labor Movement (affectionately referred to as the PSSPLM by those in the know). Based on the idea that the only way to get anyone to do anything is to physically force them, the PSSPLM, several hours after its formation, promptly stormed the Summer School office at 51 Brattle...
...institutional mechanisms for Harvard students to influence University policy in any meaningful sense. Harvard does not like to listen to students, and usually it does not have to. The instruments of power at Harvard are shrouded in secrecy and closed to students. The Harvard Corporation, the clandestine cabal responsible for ruling the University, operates entirely without student input. The Administrative Board judges students’ disciplinary matters and metes out punishments with no opportunity for legal review and no regard for due process. The Freshman Dean’s Office rules the Yard with an iron fist. No students served...
Suddenly it seems that everyone is discovering how mean girls can be. But anyone who finds this new or shocking should travel back in time with me to Dryden High School, when a cabal of meanies got yours truly tossed off the cheerleading squad, just because they could. Still, today's mean girls can pick apart your daughter's reputation or hairstyle with lightning speed in instant-message sessions over the Internet or via conference calls...
Move over Fox Mulder, here comes Thierry Meyssan. Like the unrelenting FBI hero of the popular X Files TV series, Meyssan is a player in the conspiracy business. But in contrast to the fictional Mulder's sympathetic crusades - one geek's quest to combat a farcical cabal of sociopathic humans and the world-conquering extraterrestrials they serve - Meyssan's campaign has attracted audiences with a singularly despicable suggestion: that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 were carried out by U.S. government officials as part of a murderous economic and military plot...
...game. As long as E.U. policy is perceived as being made by a cabal of unelected Eurocrats and government leaders in closed sessions, voters can be sold the line that the Union is some malign force. The truth is that Brussels is nothing more or less than what the member governments have made it. Optimists suggest that since government figures are among the Convention delegates, scapegoating Brussels will be difficult. Perhaps. But to stymie that temptation once and for all, the Convention will have to figure out how to tether the Union to the hopes rather than the fears...