Word: formality
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...uncompromisingly dedicated to the belief that the formal body charged with finding a replacement for University President Lawrence H. Summers must include in its composition members of the University faculty and students...
...requires preconditions. During the cold war, the U.S. created and maintained many ruthless and undemocratic regimes that were eventually overthrown by their citizens. During my graduate work in the U.S. 30 years ago, I read in one of the prescribed political-science texts that the U.S. had no formal foreign policy. It is the same today. But by now the U.S., including President Bush, should better understand the problem in promoting democracy in places where it has no history. Valentine N. Anthony Baguio City, the Philippines
...part of a "seminal transition that may be akin to a third spiritual awakening in the U.S." Jeffrey Mahan, academic vice president of Denver's liberal and institutionally oriented Iliff School of Theology, doesn't go that far, but he does think the trend is significant. American participation in formal church has risen and fallen throughout history, he notes, and after a prolonged post - World War II upswell, big-building Christianity may be exhaling again in favor of informal arrangements...
...First-Year Social Committee (FYSC) came under scrutiny when an invitation to a private party following the Freshman Formal seemed to imply it was sponsored by the committee, which receives funding from the Undergradauate Council (UC). FYSC Chair Zachary A.Y. Pollinger ’09, who hosted the after-party, said he planned the event to thank the committee members for their work on the formal. The invitation was posted to Dem Apples, the offical blog of the Harvard College Democrats, by Garrett G.D. Nelson ’09, who criticized the invitation for its wording and representation...
...last night’s meeting, the UC also passed legislation calling for undergraduate students to have a “formal and significant” role in choosing Summers’ successor...