Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called up Lawrence Buell, the dean for undergraduate education, to get his read on the situation. He said he did not advocate "a topdown edict" that would dictate policy on personal address at Harvard from The Crimson pages, University Hall or the department chairs. He emphasized that, "much more significant than the level of address is the level of humanity in the teaching process...
Instead of the pen, the Rose Garden; instead of the slaughterhouse, the petting zoo; instead of the death edict, the presidential pardon. For at least one turkey this Thanksgiving season, there really was reason to give thanks...
...course no individual then or now has ever been solely responsibility--after all. Boniface VII did declare that "every human creature" was "subject to Roman Pontiff." Although this edict has recently been ignored, popes do not have a very good record of taking the side of justice...
Still, Dunne doesn't mean that to be taken asan edict for the non-disabled establishment toneglect concerns for the visually impaired. Whileshe is quick to praise the many people who havegone out of their way to help her, she saysHarvard has been far from perfect in accommodatingall her needs...
...concept of shura (consultation) beyond the informal tradition of hearing petitions from private citizens. In an 83-article decree, he announced plans to establish a 60-member consultative council, and he also codified governmental protections of personal freedoms for 7 million subjects and 5 million foreign residents. Since the edict also affirmed the absolute authority of the monarch, it neither transforms Saudi Arabia into a model democracy nor positions Fahd as a regional pioneer. The Emir of Kuwait, for instance, has made a bolder pledge: to hold parliamentary elections next fall. Nonetheless, Fahd's decree represents a serious step toward...