Word: motioning
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...representative from Adams House, has correctly criticized one recent instance of executive session as “totally inappropriate.” Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 has countered that these blackout tactics, initiated by any one representative’s motion and authorized by a simple majority of council members present, are made necessary by the high-stakes give-and-take he and other representatives must engage in. “Basically, when we are negotiating with the president’s office and the administration in general, we want to control the information that...
...nerve to be calling my number” and continues “Can’t you hear me/ Pounding on your wall?” Possibly one of the finest moments on Bows and Arrows, “The Rat” powerfully set the show in motion...
Which is exactly the kind of scene Mayor Newsom imagined when he put the gay wedding train in motion just before Valentine's Day. "Put a human face on it. Let's not talk about it in theory," he explains. "Give me a story. Give me lives." The only thing Newsom was surprised by was the sheer number of lives involved--he hadn't expected so many out-of-state couples. By Friday, nearly 6,000 same-sex newlyweds had streamed out of city hall...
...easy to understand--dragon this, family honor that and so on. Whatever. You won't get bored unless leaping into the air, running along a wall, doing a somersault, tossing three shuriken (ninja throwing stars) at a guy in samurai armor and then decapitating him in one smooth motion is something you do, like, all the time. Game-play-wise, Ninja Gaiden is a neat combination of fighting and exploring, and although it's quite violent, the action is rendered in such lush detail--streaming sunlight, falling leaves, birds circling overhead--that it becomes almost balletic, like...
...witnessing the coup d'etat machine in motion." YVON NEPTUNE, Prime Minister of Haiti, urging international help to put down the uprising that threatens to topple the regime of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...