Word: oversights
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...legislative vote may face many of the same organizational and logistical problems that plagued the presidential poll, and there has been little inclination in Haiti's political class to delve too deeply into just how the country's most expensive elections ever could have been conducted with such lax oversight. Preval has intimated that he has proof of the fraud, which can be traced to polling station workers. Those 36,000 positions were prized by members of the various political parties, and Preval may not want to open the lid on that pot, particularly now that the vast majority...
Cambridge residents expressed frustration about the alleged intrusiveness of Harvard’s construction project across from Mather House and the University’s lack of response to neighborhood complaints at a meeting at the Cambridge Senior Center last night. Members of the Riverside Oversight Committee, a watchdog body created to advise the City on construction projects in the Riverside neighborhood, said that work on the graduate student housing complex on Cowperthwaite Street should not be taking place on Saturdays. “There are very few things that you have any choice on, but one of them...
...anathema to campus life in their present configuration, but putting a women’s center at the other end of the spectrum isn’t the answer to equalizing the social playing field—final clubs will still have more money, more alcohol, and no University oversight. If you really want to change the gender dynamic on campus, you’ll need to reach out to the members of these institutions. And none of these people are going to be receptive if they feel like their lifestyle is being attacked.Advocates need to realize that when they...
...G.O.P. retreat on Maryland's Eastern Shore, after Bush told lawmakers that he had resisted briefing them to keep more program details from getting leaked, Wilson retorted that the original leak appeared to have come from his Administration and that Congress has a right and a duty to exercise oversight. "The men who wrote the Constitution feared most a strong Executive with control of a standing army," Wilson tells TIME. "Our Constitution is set up to protect all of us from tyranny...
...This compression muddles the meaning of the story. It appears to be a large-scale fable about the fallacy of seeking eternal life. But much of its philosophy and even its narrative remains an enigma, either by design or oversight. For example, Aronofsky blurs the relationship between the different Thomases so you don't know if they are all the same man or reincarnations of the same spirit or if one is a fiction in another's world. Perhaps we aren't supposed to know, which is fine, but it's not a particularly interesting mystery. The book reads like...