Word: hold
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...empowerment.” Empowerment demands success regardless of gender and has been achieved by many women at Harvard. None of my Harvard experiences has indicated the gender gap in leadership positions that the forthcoming Women’s Center report promises to show, as women hold top spots in every one of my extracurricular activities. Indeed, both the UC president and vice president are currently women, as is the president of Harvard. But these women have been elected due to their abilities, not their gender...
...expected to win back some seats. Even if Obama’s personal popularity may be hard to overcome, Republicans are hoping for a repeat of the Clinton presidency: a popular president at the mercy of an agenda-setting Congress where the Republicans either dominate or at least hold far greater sway than they do today...
...Changing the rules is a risky proposition. Democrats hold 57, soon to be 58, seats in the Senate, so changing filibuster procedures may turn out to be unnecessary until at least 2010, when the deck will be reshuffled again. Yet, if current trends continue, a point may arrive when some type of adjustment in the rules should at least be threatened, perhaps not by the administration or party leadership, but at least by individual Democratic senators...
...Nineveh Resolve, aimed at rooting out insurgents and finding weapons caches. Platoons fanned out along rubbish-strewn streets as Blackhawk helicopters circled overhead to provide support. But the residents of Mosul have experienced this type of neighborhood "clearing" operation many times before. "We've never been able to really hold the gains, and so these people have seen clearance after clearance, after clearance," says Colonel Volesky. And so Mosul will see such operations again and again, hoping that something will eventually stick...
...circulate the "Charter 08" petition challenging the government. That crackdown, in part, has fed the grass-mud horse craze and similar online double entendres designed to flout the government's role as Big Brother. As one Chinese blogger told the Times, even with the most modern technology trying to hold them back, people will find a way to express themselves. "It is like a water flow - if you block one direction, it flows to other directions, or overflows...