Word: nascent
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...source familiar with the nascent constitutional amendment says one version would make clear that any actions by the President as Commander in Chief that affect domestic policies or U.S. citizens are subject to the exclusive control of Congress. "Congress can't completely cede wartime power to the President," the source says. Talk of an amendment could end up as merely a lever in hearings. Then again, the first 10 amendments--better known as the Bill of Rights--were demanded by the states in part to curb the Constitution's broad presidential powers...
...greeted by a standing ovation” at the 18-member Faculty Council’s meeting yesterday, said Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji. The Faculty Council voted unanimously to name Ulrich as the leader of a five-professor group that will craft recommendations for the nascent dean search.Ulrich, a scholar of early American history who holds one of Harvard’s 19 University professorships, is already a member of the Faculty Council.“The role of the Faculty Council re[garding] the FAS Dean search is still being defined,” Ulrich wrote...
...says. “Reese Witherspoon might not want to be in a $1.5 million horror movie, but there are a lot of jiggling breasts who do.” MILKING A BEEFCAKE PAST Sex has already been a major part of Sandvoss’s nascent career. A Google image search for “Steve Sandvoss” yields an eyeful of sexually-charged photos, featuring the actor bathing, shirtless, or with his pants undone. A number of gay webmasters have established digital shrines to the 25-year-old actor since his 2004 breakout role in the indie...
...first months after the war, the British media made a great deal of the contrasts between the British and American areas of control. While American soldiers were dealing with a nascent insurgency in Baghdad, forced to wear full body armor (when available) and shelter behind high blast walls, their British counterparts were patrolling Basra in soft caps and smilingly accepting cups of tea from roadside vendors. This bonhomie was claimed to be the result of that superior understanding of Iraqi culture. Never mind that managing mostly Shi'ite Basra was a picnic compared to running the much more heterogeneous...
...night when both their authors and readers are putting off writing papers. Another factor is simple pluralism: unlike the world at large, Harvard has (by the most generous count) two newspapers, one of which has a publishing cycle longer than the campaign itself.Before I pat the back of the nascent world of internet journalism and congratulate it on a job well done, however, I want to pause for a moment to think through some of the reasons why we should be wary of accepting too much of our news, if not for campus affairs then at least for global ones...