Word: haltingly
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...really cannot see any other option that can better suit Hong Kong's current circumstances. We are now facing a real danger of our democratic development coming to a halt." DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong Chief Executive, in a televised address urging the city's Legislative Council to pass proposed political reforms. Critics say Tsang's reforms don't go far enough...
...flourishing music scene. "When people come to Ramallah, they taste culture," says Munther Jawabreh, 29, an artist from a refugee camp near Hebron. "Instead of the Israeli occupation, they can think about beauty." In Ramallah, there's plenty to think about these days. Since Palestinian leaders announced a halt to the intifadeh in February and Israel's tanks pulled back, Ramallah has seen a burst of creativity. In July, a $5 million Palace of Culture, funded by the U.N. and Japan, opened with performances by local poets and musicians. Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim brought his orchestra to the town...
...pleasant kind of humming. Happy, unself-conscious, slightly flighty and more than a little girly. It comes out whenever I halt the conversation to scribble in my notebook to catch up. And when I run out of the restaurant to feed the parking meter, she grabs the pad and writes, "Note to self: buy Felicity presents." She giggles and touches my arm and asks me lots of questions about myself. If all that weren't femme enough, she refers to herself by her nickname, Flicka; points out her favorite knitting store across the street; and admits that the night before...
...chests has improved the quality of this year’s race by allowing candidates to focus on communicating their ideas instead of raising funds. And now that all candidates are armed with a reasonable amount of money, we expect that dishonest, unreported spending will come to a halt. All three tickets have endorsed the increase in campaign funding, indicating that previous spending limits made it difficult for candidates to reach out successfully to an electorate of 6500 students. UC campaigns are a critical part of the process of improving the Harvard College experience, and the $100 previously allocated...
Greenfield is the president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 38 law schools and law faculties that filed suit against the Pentagon to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of the coalition, but the University did sign a friend-of-the-court brief in September backing FAIR...