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...memo has also become a focal point for groups hoping to use Summers' appointment to push for change in University policy...
...Veritas Forum was first staged at Harvard in 1986 as an academic conference in Christian apologetics. The event, held nearly every year, was a focal point of Kelly K. Monroe's 1996 bestseller Finding God At Harvard...
...stakes matter the most. As a craftsman, Spelling would no doubt appreciate the tortuous tale of Susan Chrzanowski, a Michigan judge and divorce who, over the course of a year, journeyed from pillar of the community to key witness at her married lover's murder trial and then to focal point of public rancor over the deceit and misconduct produced by the desires that lurk beneath black robes...
Later, on May 17, Deng himself expressed during a Politburo meeting that "Compromises right now are surrenders to their [the students'] values, and to not compromise we must insist on the position of the April 26 editorial." The April 26 editorial was one of the focal points of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, for it demonstrated how the CCP had from the beginning perceived the students' protests as a "turmoil" that threatened its power...
...country faces immense challenges. Even before charges were filed against Estrada, sending the peso into a death spiral, economic growth had stalled while debt had soared to record levels, throwing new IMF relief into doubt. Graft and corruption remain endemic in the Philippines, and they were focal points in Estrada's trial. Century-old demands by Muslim secessionists for an independent Mindanao had quieted at the end of the previous presidency, Fidel Ramos', but flared anew under the erratic management of the Estrada administration. But that...