Word: derailments
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...think most people will see this as a turning point, in a sense that for the last 10 years, there was a sense that nothing could be done in this country in terms of coverage,” Blendon said. Partisan politics didn’t derail the proposal, even though the state’s governor, Mitt Romney, who earned law and business degrees from Harvard in 1974, is a Republican, and the legislature is controlled by Democrats. Unanimously approved in the Senate and passed on a 154-2 vote in the House, the legislation now awaits Romney?...
...Blair and Ahern both suggested the murder may have been a deliberate attempt to derail their plan to finish the job of establishing a peaceful Northern Ireland. "If there are people who are trying to wreck the political process by these appalling and barbaric acts of violence," Blair said, "the single best message is to say 'No, you're not going to succeed.'" That sounds good in theory, but as Donaldson's killing has shown once again, violence usually has the final say in Northern Ireland...
...sciences. These steps can be transformed into galloping leaps in the very near future, and all that is required of us is our passion and will.Along the way, distractions may make it difficult to maintain focus on the review. Nonetheless, changes in personnel and politics cannot be permitted to derail the priorities of the University. Students remain committed to reforming undergraduate education, as we will show today at a student convention on the revival of the curricular review and as we have already affirmed through hundreds of signatures on a petition to resuscitate the review. Now it is time...
...Diana Sorensen, the Rothenberg professor of Romance languages and literatures, warned that the continuing administrative turnover under Summers may derail the curricular review...
...IT’S THE RIGHT TIME” In the Friday morning interview, Kirby stressed that “for many reasons, it’s the right time” to step down.Kirby said he did not expect his resignation, effective June 30, to derail the curricular review—as some professors have said it might. “You cannot expect that the next dean will come in and lead a counter-reformation,” Kirby said, casting the recommendations of the review’s committees as views of the Faculty...