Word: modicums
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...When Tejas Pathak leaves his hospital bed and joins the great swarm of commuters once again in quest of the golden songbird, the least that his government owes him is that his commute has a modicum of comfort and the maximum of safety. Bombayites, in responding to terror, have shown the world their best. Now it's their government's turn to follow suit...
What's the stance of the Hamas-run Palestinian government? It's unclear. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called the beach attack a "war crime," but did not endorse ending the cease-fire. That suggests at least a modicum of division within Hamas...
...poverty and instability that so many immigrants flee. Most people, however, are more comfortable working in a national framework. If that means providing more citizenship tutoring or doing other things to improve the lives of immigrants in the Boston area, so be it. I prefer international outreach as the modicum of real change, but local work is still extremely commendable. Organizing the millions that have demonstrated in favor of immigrants’ rights is truly an amazing accomplishment— especially with a population that is so diverse and divided. It took the time and energy of city officials...
...aware that the Yard had somehow been taken away from undergraduates in Harvard College and thus in need of being reclaimed. If, however, the means by which that objective is accomplished relies on members of a band of musicians or their hired thugs who lack even a modicum of civility toward the people who actually make this place work for undergraduates (and all the rest of us), then I question the means by which that objective is being achieved...
With any luck—and a modicum of respect for campus opinion on the part of the University—students will soon be able to live with whomever they choose, regardless of their roommates’ gender. On Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) passed, with a single “nay” vote, a bill recommending that consensual mixed-gender rooming be an option available to all upperclassmen. Sunday’s legislation is long overdue and provides an excellent opportunity for the Committee on House Life (CHL) to act to quickly to eliminate outmoded provisions...