Word: commitments
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...believe that American society is in a period of transition that will ultimately lead it to embrace full and equal participation of homosexuals in the military," the statement said. "President Clinton's attempt to change military policy, while not wholly successful, has nonetheless accelerated this development. The trustees now commit Dartmouth College to helppush the transition forward...
...escapes over rooftops. One observer proposes the startling notion that a misty swirl of radical, unsettling new theories about the workings of the human mind could be used by detectives to create a / psychological profile of the murderer. The man who offers this theory is an alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James at Harvard. His belief is that childhood experiences are more important than inherited tendencies in ordering behavior, and this psychological determinism, an offense to the ideal of free will...
...puckishly wrote in 1985 that killing a celebrity is "the only sure-fire route to overnight front-page fame." And he is a connoisseur of the judicially sensational, attending many a grotesque trial. Waters can sagely note the media's glamorizing and merchandising of felony -- "These days you can commit a crime, and two weeks later it's a TV movie" -- and in the next breath give a rave review to the Menendez circus. "A-list, A-list!" he rhapsodizes. "It's the only A-list trial in America for quite some time. Hey, it even launched a cable channel...
Under the terms of the council constitution, "[a]ny question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." More than 1,100 signatures were submitted to the council, indicating that "[w]e, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum." The council does have a legitimate interest in assuring that the signatures submitted on such a petition are valid...
Although certainly a convenient interpretation for Gabay and his fellow executives who wish to maintain the status quo uncontested, such an "interpretation" denies a simple fact. Every student who signed Davis's petition signed a petition which called for five questions: "We, the undersigned Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates, commit the attached questions to a referendum...