Word: lock
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...Livni has her work cut out for her. In the days ahead, the new party head will try to lock up support from Kadima's current coalition partners - the dovish Labor Party, a group representing pensions and the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party - which could give her a slim majority in the 120-seat Knesset, or Israeli parliament. But Shas is making demands on Livni, such as pushing for an increase in child allowance (ultra-Orthodox families tend to be large) and making state education more religious. If Livni bends to Shas' demands, Labourites are threatening to walk...
...community organizer, and his opponents should be able to criticize him without being accused of race baiting. But it's tricky when the attacks wander into the neighborhood of racial stereotypes, like the McCain "Celebrity" ad linking Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, which had a whiff of lock-up-your-women alarmism about the sexual power of black men. The usually somnolent David Gergen lashed out at McCain's ad portraying Obama as the Messiah, calling it a subtle but intentional effort to paint a black man as The Other. "It's the subtext of this campaign; everybody...
...decision was prompted, in part, by a series of controversial encounters between HUPD officers and minorities on campus. The most recent of these incidents occurred in August, when two HUPD officers confronted a black high school student working at Harvard for the summer as he tried to remove a lock from his bicycle. To be sure, HUPD officers generally discharge their duties with professionalism and distinction, and they provide an invaluable service to all in the Harvard community. But the emerging pattern of racially charged incidents and subsequent discontent among affected minority groups on campus could not be responsibly ignored...
...former Suffolk County district attorney and currently a managing partner at the Boston law firm Bingham McCutchen.Faust wrote that the review was prompted in part by an incident that occurred Aug. 8 in which HUPD officers, responding to a call, confronted a person attempting to remove a lock from a bicycle.According to the HUPD police log, the individual was determined to be the owner of the bicycle and an affiliate of the University after questioning by officers. The person has since been identified as a black high school student from the Boston area working at Harvard for the summer. Faust...
...doesn't seem like there's a lot of information going on. It's an interesting way to begin," said Alex P. Raymond '12, who couldn't re-enter his dorm to lock his room before being directed to the science center. "I kind of wish I was still...