Word: facto
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...lack for gay people watching the Oscars, and DeGeneres did host the Emmys in 2001. But the Academy Awards is something else; with the Super Bowl and American Idol, it's one of our last three true mass-media rituals. Its host is the de facto M.C. of mainstream America. And it's not as if homosexuality has faded as an issue. When gay people unite a mass of straight people, it's usually for defense-of-marriage ballot issues, not for passing the chips and wondering what Angelina's going to wear on the red carpet...
...around 2 a.m., long before its many college-age residents are ready to turn in. Late last month, the City of Boston turned the puritanical screw still tighter with the enactment of a directive prohibiting those under 21 from attending nightclubs after 11 p.m. That has meant the de facto end of both 19-and-over nights at clubs and under-21 attendance at concerts held at local clubs. For students and young people, this move represents another symptom of the city’s unique penchant for enacting stifling regulation. Worse, officials seem incapable of validating the drastic action...
...Brien and Badaracco, who is also Shad Professor of business ethics at the Business School, were, by all accounts, model House Masters. From redesigning Currier’s fishbowl, transforming it from a de facto dance studio, unused by Currierites, into a center of House life, to constantly making themselves available to their students, Badaracco and O’Brien made Currier not only a welcoming place to spend three years, but an immensely desirable one. Upon being quadded on blocking day, those freshmen who saw Currier’s tree on their blocking cards could take solace in knowing...
...local establishment. When New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft proposed to move his franchise to South Boston, local politicians lashed out at Kraft’s proposal and lampooned him as an ignorant outsider—this despite his being from Brookline. Around the same time, de facto Red Sox chief John L. Harrington proposed to build a new stadium for his team. Although the stadium plans were ultimately shelved, local pols took the Hyde Park native seriously and agreed to shell out $200 million to aid in construction costs...
...here is where the two panic attacks come together: if the Republicans block any consideration of the no-confidence-in-the-surge-resolutions this week, Casey will be finished. Democrats will vote against Casey because his nomination will become the de facto no confidence vote, the only way to express disapproval...