Word: hot-button
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...symbolic weight of this decision may actually be heavier than the practical effect. Church progressives, and indeed some conservatives, are asking why Benedict went out of his way to reopen a hot-button issue that, for the vast majority of Catholics, has long been settled. With traditionalists emboldened and progressives feeling under siege, the Church hierarchy and local bishops may wind up caught in the crossfire. Still, on a more substantive level, Benedict's real long-term objective may be a sort of "counter-reform" of the alternative practices of the new Mass rather than a widespread return...
...Verba also served as the go-to man for dealing with many hot-button Harvard topics, responding to contoversies over ROTC, the calendar, and faculty hiring, and mending fences after Lawrence H. Summers’ presidency...
...social atmosphere to a “cellular” structure. “Everyone knows five to ten people,” he said. “It will be breaking through that structure that is really important to building community.” One hot-button issue is the way in which HESA funds are managed and allocated. This year, according to Hassold, the organization received $15,000 from the office of the Extension School dean. Sams said the group spent nearly 80 percent of its funds within the first three months of the school year...
...mail comes two months before Bok will step down and signals that he intends to make headway on this hot-button issue before handing the presidency over to President-elect Drew G. Faust on July...
...world, definitions can be crucial. And for much of his near-40-year career, George Gittoes has been tagged a war artist, a definition which is both true and false. While the 57-year-old Australian has covered many of the world's hot-button conflicts since Vietnam, he hasn't always been invited, and unlike most official war artists, he hasn't confined his medium to paint and pencil. Famously, he was one of the few to witness the Kibeho massacre in Rwanda, camera in hand, and more recently Gittoes has turned to music video and anime to capture...