Word: formality
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...done at every Faculty meeting this fall, University President Lawrence H. Summers asked Kirby to lead the discussion and did not offer his own opinion on the review. In the wake of professors’ no confidence vote in his leadership last March, Summers has ceased all formal involvement with the review.Also at yesterday’s meeting, Gross announced that Quincy House Co-Masters Robert P. Kirshner, who is the Clowes professor of science, and Jayne Loader, will be taking a sabbatical in 2006-2007. Gross said the College is currently taking applications for acting house master...
Juliet S. Samuels’ opinions of the Institute of Politics (IOP) (“The Greasy Poll,” op-ed, Nov. 30) seem formed by her limited involvement and her hunger for formal debate. They are not bad opinions and are certainly interesting. However, the evidence she offers of diversity at the IOP is scanty at best and shows that she has not undertaken any serious investigation of IOP diversity...
...power [of the Undergraduate Council president] lies with articulating what students think and presenting it to the council,” said Chadbourne. “There is no formal training provided to someone who gets elected if a candidate does not have a handle on how to do this...
...ring hollow. The irony is that the controversy Washington has unleashed by its conduct threatens to undermine real achievements in the struggle against terror. A case in point is rendition. That's a practice that involves the transfer of a terror suspect from one country to another outside the formal extradition process. The overwhelming majority of renditions have the consent of all countries involved; "extraordinary rendition," effectively a kidnapping without the acquiescence of the host country, had never been carried out by the U.S. in connection to terrorism before 2001, and is likely still rare. In classic rendition cases...
...furor over allegations about CIA activities on European soil in relation to terror suspects. The issue has been the focus of a mounting clamor for answers in the weeks since the Washington Post first alleged that the CIA may have maintained secret prisons in Eastern Europe, culminating in a formal request by the European Union for an explanation. But sources tell TIME that Secretary Rice plans to come out swinging, shifting the focus back to the responsibilities of Europe?s governments in the war on terror...