Word: marshaling
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...Afghan defense minister, Field Marshal Mohammed Fahim, attacked the husband of the female presidential candidate, Massouda Jalal, for even allowing his wife to run. Accusations of blasphemy against Islamic law drove Former Vice President Sima Samar from her post as women’s affairs minister. She now heads a newly created human rights commission but recently needed barbed wire protection to be installed around her home in Kabul...
...Approved by the University, the speech was intended to reclaim the true meaning of the word “jihad” as the moral and personal struggle to better oneself and one’s community. It was a critical and historicizing commentary, and one which former University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, who read the proposed draft, described as “healing” and “non-confrontational...
...life after Harvard football even before there’s life after Harvard football. Black’s living it up, occupying his time with the Owl, the Ski Club, the Sierra Student Coalition, class and, yes, IM football. Harrington, now a senior, was a class marshal finalist and is the heart and soul of the Eliot House Grill. Wahlberg, also a senior, got his Ivy League championship after all, mowing down Princeton in the ninth to save the title game for the baseball team last spring...
McCann was a first-team All-American and Hobey Baker finalist in 1994, but he was also elected Class Marshal and credits his experience helping kids in public-service extracurriculars as one factor that influenced his return to coaching...
Ultimately, however, class marshal is not a popularity contest. The chosen eight say they didn’t do any of these things to become marshals, and were often extremely taken aback by the suggestion that they are “popular.” Instead, as Pat enthusiastically states, the marshals of 2003 are simply hoping to plan “the best senior year ever...