Word: formalisms
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...creation of this task force is the administration’s second formal commitment to reduce its emissions...
...with each other in broken English. The connections they make are in unlikely places and between unlikely people: an unemployed man whose wife hates him and a second-string conductor who can’t seem to finish his concerto, for example, or an outspoken young woman and a formal old man. But this is no “Lost in Translation.” It’s less a story about culture clash than it’s a story about people. The film does not arrive at the saccharine grand conclusion that traditionally antagonistic peoples ought...
...shootout in the capital Dili should not have been such a surprise. When most multinational peacekeepers flew out of Dili in the years after East Timor's formal independence in 2002, the world considered the country a victory of U.N. nation-building. The U.N. chief in East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was asked to duplicate his work as special envoy for Iraq (he was later tragically killed in Baghdad), and East Timor's former President Xanana Gusmão (now Prime Minister) declared that his country could be a model for other young, developing countries. Yet the billions poured...
...Mason Fellows Program, a mid-career masters in public administration. She has served as Liberian Finance Minister and held high-level positions at Citibank, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme. Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, who extended the formal offer, said doing so was an easy decision. “[She] really does epitomize the best, in so many ways, of what we aspire to at the Kennedy School,” he said. Johnson-Sirleaf addressed Harvard audiences in August 2005, during her presidential campaign, and in September 2006, just months...
...document entitled “Sexual Harassment and Unprofessional Conduct: Guidelines in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences” (online for your convenience), “Officers and other members of the teaching staff should be aware that any romantic involvement with their students makes them liable for formal action against them.” Students desperate for a loophole could point to the fact that this rule refers only to your own academic instructor, but test the waters at your own risk—the Guidelines stress that such relationships are always “asymmetric in nature?...