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...negotiations with an unnamed network to create a travel show staring the duo and also hopes for a live-action remake of 1980s cartoon series “DuckTales,” starring Averell as Scrooge McDuck. As for the money, Averell said he’ll defer to others for ideas. “Having many Harvard friends in the financial world, I’m looking for advice on how to use it wisely,” he said. Averell’s roommate, Jon Eirich, said in an e-mail that friends and fans of Averell should...
...requests UC funds must be nondiscriminatory itself. (So far, opponents of the bill have had to resort to parliamentary tactics to prevent this bill’s passage.) But this proposed expansion of eligible groups has two consequences that are unacceptable. First, it would mean that UC is improperly deferring to another group’s guidelines when it is the UC, as a student government, that should set and adhere to its own rules. Second, it would allow the UC to fund groups that have clauses in their bylaws that explicitly prohibit some individuals from becoming officers...
...through institutional means instead of rapid change pushed on the University from outside. Rather than imagining a better world and working towards that goal, students seem content to be on the slightly more progressive side of the establishment, CEOs with cause bracelets.Consciously or unconsciously, too many students seem to defer to the status quo. The implicit assumption is that decisions made in the past deserve respect, not because they have served their purpose, but simply because they were made in the past. The problem, as illustrated by the St. Louis example, is that our predecessors sometimes got it wrong, occasionally...
...talk about sex. The social pressure remains intense for men to prove their masculinity and women their fertility. Indian women may be making more decisions about household buying or their children's education, but they remain sexually submissive, still marry early (average age: 17) and tend to defer to men about whether a condom will be used...
...expiration date of Feb. 3. And some kind of congressional investigation into the NSA spying program seems certain. Specter, for one, has promised hearings early in the year--a move, sources tell TIME, that the White House is hoping to head off by convincing the Senator to defer to the Intelligence Committee, whose hearings would be behind closed doors and classified. "They're going to lean on Specter very hard not to hold hearings," says a Republican official. Bush has warned that any public hearings on programs would simply tip off terrorists and invite them to adjust their tactics...