Word: facto
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...when you're living on $1 or less a day. Because the government's telecommunications agency wants more money than Mohapi's budget allows to set up high-speed Internet access, the clinic still depends on a sluggish dial-up connection. Meanwhile, the center has become a de facto emergency room for the neighborhood--further evidence of the fragile state of basic health care in the region...
...some parts of the country, Latino segregation is even higher, according to Harvard University's Civil Rights Project. Many school districts have given up trying to break up racial concentrations and instead are working to deal with the achievement gaps that accompany largely segregated schools-- a de facto return to the separate-but-equal idea that Brown v. Board of Ed. sought to abolish...
Predictably, Harvard administrators have reacted to this de facto banning of the tailgate with the usual poisonous mix of flattery, self-congratulation, and simple idiocy that one has almost come to expect. (Remember, Harvard put a library office building in the middle of Harvard Square and student-group offices in a library in the Quad.) The College’s clueless attitude is best illustrated by the comment of Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 in a recent Crimson article: “Have we [Harvard] ever once not been attracted to a party because Yale...
...becoming a de facto public spokesman for those opposing the Church's centuries-old tradition of priestly celibacy, however, may have offered Benedict a unique opportunity to clearly state his position on this hot-button request early in his papacy, as John Paul II did in his second year in office. Vatican sources note that there are several prominent Cardinals who want to at least fine tune the policy on celibacy. "I don't think the Pope cares about Milingo," says one senior Vatican official. "But he wants to give the Cardinals a chance to have their...
While the resistance longtime residents put up to change is often rooted in xenophobia and racism, the result of the resistance is actually progressive: those engaging in voice do not exit, and thus do not contribute to de facto segregation...