Word: membership
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...Vermont is blue heaven, home of Ben and Jerry and Phish, the first state with civil unions for gays, the last state with a Wal-Mart and the only state that President Bush has somehow neglected to visit. (Naylor likes to say that Bush is the unofficial membership director for his secession movement.) One Vermont Senator, Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders, is an avowed socialist; the other, Pat Leahy, is a liberal Democrat perhaps best known for being told by the Vice President on the Senate floor to go "f--k yourself." When Manhattan-born Howard Dean served as governor...
...With a membership list including organizations such as Microsoft, Facebook, and the Family Online Safety Institute, the group faces the challenge of incorporating varied perspectives into a coherent set of recommendations. But Palfrey said that all of the organizations in the task force share the common goal of protecting minors...
...back of the store there is a glass “interview booth,” where Concepts plans to interview various fashion celebrities and professional athletes and then post the videos on their website, www.cncpts.com. By far the most intriguing aspect of Concepts is its “membership lounge,” which is located downstairs. Their press release claims that the lounge “references historical Harvard Square secret societies as an invite-only retail experience.” In this “Final Club” of hipster gear, members can lounge and check...
...While admission to Harvard is seen as the pinnacle of academic strength and achievement, membership in this selective community is a double-edged sword. The same qualities that brought us here—excellence, competitiveness, and ambition, to name a few, become liabilities when they burden us with high levels of stress, which 62 percent of Harvard students reportedly experience. Accustomed to success, we place unjustifiably high expectations on ourselves. Many of us have been told that at Harvard, no one will “hold your hand” and we have consented to this idea. Though regarded...
...other Western embassies. Belgrade is also taking steps to undermine the fledgling state itself by encouraging the partition of Serb-dominated areas in northern Kosovo. Though a new Balkan war seems unlikely, Kosovo's birth is proving messier than its backers expected. And Serbia, which had been edging toward membership of the European Union and NATO, instead faces a degree of international isolation not seen since strongman Slobodan Milosevic was in power. Taken aback by all this anger and acrimony, Goran Svilanovic, a former Foreign Minister now working on regional cooperation, admits: "We didn't see this coming...