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Unfortunately, the case for the U.N. is relentlessly pragmatic. The threshold argument is as compelling as tapioca: it exists. You can't just quit. Everyone belongs, which was not true of the League of Nations. It is where you go to make a formal argument to the world--as Adlai Stevenson did during the Cuban missile crisis, and as Colin Powell tried to do last month. It's nice to have a place like that; on rare occasions, the unofficial discussions among countries can yield some benign results. And on the rarest occasions--the first Gulf War; Afghanistan--there...
Several solutions were proposed at the meeting, including the implementation of a policy by which students would submit a formal, yet non-binding, plan of study in the middle of the preceding semester...
...second entrance to Harvard’s underground garage—which is currently under construction—to help reduce traffic jams. Bloomstein said that the idea of a second entrance is already under discussion by Harvard officials, city officials, and ANC members, who are conducting a formal traffic and parking study in the neighborhood...
...bells are hung where we have an acute and respective awareness of their significance,” she said. “We ring the bells at commencement, formal dinners and other monumental occasions...
Craig, or “Billy Dee Adams,” wrapped himself in cellophane plastic for the talent competition—for which the contestants were supposed to don formal attire—and performed an “oral hygiene” dance which left the entire room smelling of mouthwash...