Word: formalisms
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Clinton was impeached by congress, but never actually removed from office. This is because impeachment is a two-step process and although it is taken very seriously - only seventeen federal officials have ever been impeached - it's really nothing more than a formal decision to commence a trial, in which a conviction would automatically remove the official from office. (See pictures of Presidential First Dogs...
...light of the push for more collective social space that serves the student body, there should be more on-campus art exhibitions. The student body would also benefit from more visiting artists and artists-in-residence. An emphasis on teaching and interaction with undergraduates, in the shape of formal classes, informal extracurricular sessions, or study groups akin to the current Institute of Politics Fellows Program would benefit both students and the artists who would find in Harvard a community in which to live and create. Among the report’s suggestions was a new undergraduate Dramatic Arts concentration...
...committee will make their recommendation to the dean of the College in January, before the new UC president takes office. Sundquist said the new executives will be charged mostly with encouraging administrators to implement the recommendations. Both the Flores and Schwartz platforms also discuss January term plans. No formal plans have yet been announced for this period which will fall between the end of winter break and the beginning of the second semester after the calendar change takes effect next year. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at cshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...only on the first of December that we finally got formal permission - from the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - to call what the U.S. economy is experiencing a recession. Just a few days later, after the Labor Department announced that U.S. employers shed 533,000 jobs in November and 1.2 million since August, some were agitating to ditch the R word and replace it with the more ominous D one. "Shall we call it a depression now?" asked former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "The threat of a widespread depression is now real...
Although still young, Paperless Post is already growing. It is more than choosing snowflakes on cream paper—it is about “organizing formal social behavior without sacrificing formality,” Hirschfeld says. On the Web site, users can keep track of events, manage RSVPs, and even see who has opened the invitation already...