Word: expression
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Last year, the situation on campus had many convinced that Senior Gift was just another avenue to express indignation with the University. Former Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and former Black Men’s Forum President Brandon M. Terry ’05 started “Senior Gift Plus,” which promised to withhold seniors’ donations until the University divested from PetroChina, a company intimately involved with the Sudanese government and by extension with the genocide in Darfur. Still more seniors were dissuaded from donating by University President Lawrence...
...bigger than any individual or cause. Students who refrain from giving to Senior Gift are not punishing the leadership of the University; they are only punishing those most in need. So, in an attempt to frame the debate before another graduating class is led astray, we want to express our support for Senior Gift as it kicks off another year...
...House's ugly theatrics surrounding the Murtha proposal, but perhaps more meaningful. Senate Democrats failed to win a commitment to the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops. But the wording of the resolution wasn't nearly so important as the subtext. Politicians of both parties felt the need to express some sort of dismay about Iraq. And no one offered an amendment calling for a more robust U.S. military effort to win the war. That now seems beyond the realm of political possibility...
...Adams exhibit, “Early Work,” is the most enthralling. Prints framed in darker wood, mounted on grayer walls, and lit by dimmer lighting evoke the great American landscape photographer in his teens and twenties struggling to find the most direct and honest way to express his sense of awe on trips to Yosemite and elsewhere in the Western wilderness.Adams made these first few dozen prints in the pictorialist style of his contemporaries, for whom photography didn’t inherently qualify as art. The pictorialists felt the need to touch up their images...
...growing economic and military rival. Before leaving Japan, Bush touched pointedly on the needs of his fellow Christians in the world's most populous country, during a speech laying out an Asian agenda stressing freedom. ?I have pointed out that the people of China want more freedom to express themselves, to worship without state control, to print Bibles and other sacred texts without fear of punishment,? he said. ?We encourage China to continue down the road of reform and openness-because the freer China is at home, the greater the welcome it will receive abroad.? Bush also made big news...