Word: institutionalize
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Conan, at 46, is coming into his own in a way typical of a post-boomer. Like the rest of his age cohort in all walks of life, he's taking over an institution just as it has become diminished. Network TV, newspapers, Social Security, American hegemony - all seem to...
Apart from the Iranian electorate, Khamenei has a couple of very important constituencies to deal with. Indeed, while most people describe Khamenei as the unelected leader of Iran, he was chosen by a small but critical institution, the Assembly of Experts. He must also deal with the Guardian Council, which...
They've just completed a new master's program at Medill - with scholarships from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - aimed at training programmers in basic journalism so they can better understand how technology is impacting the industry and trying to engineer change down the road. Medill isn...
Moussavi also accused Ahmadinejad of making the country less secure by constantly raising the issue of the Holocaust. "AIPAC [the America Israel Public Affairs Committee], the biggest Zionist institution in the U.S., sees this policy as a blessing for itself," he argued. "We have to have a more pragmatic policy...
Critics say that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the bigger a part China plays on the world stage, the more it can impose these kinds of restrictions. "The criticism of these sorts of measures is quite weak," says Cheng Li, a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. "Domestically, the...