Word: conferences
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...
...Last week, at an international symposium titled "North Korean Human Rights Abuses Awareness Week," cohosted by the cabinet secretariat and the Foreign Affairs and Justice Ministries, specialists from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. met to confer on the abductee issue in the context of broader human rights violations in North Korea. Their view was clear: "We will not have satisfaction on denuclearization, human rights or the abductees until the [North Korean] regime is gone," says panelist Michael Green, senior adviser and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies based in Washington...
Taylor added that if such a scenario occurred, Election Commission personnel would likely be forced to confer with the UC president and the Council as a whole before voting on a final course of action...
Harvard stands out in many ways, even from other elite institutions. At least one of these distinctions, however, does not confer upon its students any bragging rights: Harvard is the only Ivy League school not to provide students with cable in their rooms...
Castine said the administration did not inform him of the concerns the consultant would be raising at the meeting—leaving him no time to confer with engineers he has been working with and see if the issues could be addressed...