Word: fractionalism
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...students supported the HSAS's efforts, and just a few weeks ago, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution recommending the administration switch from the FLA to the WRC by a huge majority. Clearly, as has been suggested in the past, the HSAS does not represent just a small fraction of students. The students deserve to be not only heard, but to have a vote when it comes to making sweatshop policy decisions. More to the point, Harvard should switch from...
...according to Bradley, he'll fight on. In a pre-debate press conference Bradley quoted Mark Twain: "The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated." Are they? It's true that the candidates are fairly close in the delegate count and that only a small fraction of the nominating votes have been cast (there are more than 30 times as many votes at stake Tuesday as have been decided already), but Gore is comfortably ahead in the polls in every voting state and, barring an aggressive last-minute move by Bradley or a gaffe by Gore, there's no reason...
Clad in black, he wore to breakfast a gold pin, emblazoned with the fraction "3/4." That represented the three fourths of black men who had never faced legal trouble, he said...
...anything, not aggressive enough. While Bush laments the president's decision not to use ground troops, McCain bemoans that "most Americans cannot see the connection between our security and Mr. Milosevic's crimes." Never mind that these crimes, according to a recent U.N. report, resulted in only a tiny fraction of the casulaties claimed by Secretrary of Defense William S. Cohen...
...long career as an executive and later as a consultant, Jim Hamm oversaw operations in factories along the U.S.-Mexico border. He always wondered how the maquiladora workers managed to make ends meet on incomes that were a fraction of their American counterparts'. One day, while visiting friends, Hamm stumbled on a shelf of anthropology textbooks--and was hooked. At first he nourished his voracious interest with books alone. Later he began taking anthropology courses at the University of New Hampshire. Four years ago, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts. He has an advantage over...