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...should look. Here in the Northeast, this may include a splash of cable-chord or a dab of pearls. The image is neat, tidy, prim. And, of course, there is an idea of how a conservative behaves. Unlike his liberal cousin, who is an old hand at activism, the conservative??s means of discourse are more refined...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Confusing Conservatism | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...beyond Neil Rudenstine’s five initial cross-disciplinary initiatives, and we’ve done that. Disciplinary boundaries are breaking down everywhere.” Hyman’s efforts, though, have occasionally met with resistance from what he calls an “inward-looking, conservative?? attitude to which some departments can be susceptible. “It can be quite challenging to make appointments outside the normal boundaries of discipline-based departments, which interferes with Harvard taking leadership roles in emerging disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields,” Hyman says. Deputy Provost...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Expansion of Cross-Disciplinary Science Research Defines Hyman's Tenure | 12/19/2006 | See Source »

...Japanese club, and, if it is accepted, the highest bid awards a team the rights to sign him. This ante can only be refunded should the American team and the Japanese player fail to agree on a contract. Unsure of what they are getting, teams usually keep their bids conservative??until Boston’s binge...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: The $103.1-Million Ticket | 12/15/2006 | See Source »

Young said that while the crowd’s reaction to his racier material was “a little more conservative?? than he expected, he had seen worse...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Crack Up For Charity | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...appears that the Bush administration arrived at the faulty conclusion that our old tendency to engage in a foreign policy that was literally conservative??that sought to preserve the balance of the international order by keeping other countries from disrupting it and pursued only incremental change—no longer applies in the post-9/11 world or that we do not have the luxury of this comparatively slow and methodical strategy. So it adopted nearly the opposite foreign policy, one that is inherently radical, seeking to overturn the existing world order and build a new one from...

Author: By Stephen E. Dewey | Title: Party of Denial | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

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