Word: formality
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Burns said that he hoped the fellows will interact with students beyond the formal study groups—to which the fellows are “contractually obligated”—as the past semester’s fellows...
...twisting with Canadian lawmakers. Prime Minister Paul Martin, the only member of the G-8 running a budget surplus, has refused to do something Bono and DATA had long hoped he would: commit to giving 0.7% of Canada's GNP to development aid. Many European countries made formal commitments to that figure in 2005, adding billions to the future overall aid pot, but Martin has said the numbers don't add up yet for Canada. (The U.S. gives 0.1%). Bono was hoping to change Martin's mind before the end of the year...
When I ask whether there is a formal division of labor between the two, Bill demurs. "It's like saying, Who is raising our children?" After Bill speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they spend an hour dissecting the politics and personalities. When Melinda goes to Africa, she calls Bill to share her stories...
...before last Wednesday’s powwow with students. This is not to say that the College has entirely neglected student opinion on Hilles in the past; the QRAC/Hilles Space Committee held four student focus groups in the 2003-04 school year. But there seems to have been little formal effort to solicit student input between the final engineering and funding approval and the creation of rather firm architectural proposals.Finally, students cannot allow University Hall to continue to drag its heels with the construction timetable. It took a full year between the Committee’s recommendations and a final...
...Yasukuni?not Japan's longstanding ties to the U.S.?that is straining relations within Asia to a breaking point. The leaders of South Korea and China refused to have formal bilateral meetings with Koizumi at December's East Asian summit in Kuala Lumpur. At the APEC summit in November, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun told Koizumi the visits to Yasukuni were "totally unacceptable." Tang Jiaxuan, a Chinese State Council member in charge of diplomacy, said that the issue has made Sino-Japanese relations "the most difficult" since the two nations normalized diplomatic ties in 1972. And Wang...