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...EAC’s referendum means that the student “recognize[s] that this will take sacrifice and innovation from across the FAS community, and pledge[s] to do [his/her] part to realize these reductions while [he/she is] at Harvard.” Interestingly, the phrase about “sacrifice” was removed from the final draft of the ballot...
...safe bet you’ve come to realize the full horror of the administration’s Iraqi adventure. The daily diet of car bombs, the dead, and the endless destruction cannot have slipped your attention. Sure, the news might come neatly packaged in the phrase “sectarian slaughter,” but it’s hard to read the death count day after day without feeling something more significant is taking place...
...years ago American policy held that "China" was the small island called Taiwan, and that Washington regarded the mainland as a hostile, totalitarian hell. The idea that a staunchly conservative Republican President could normalize relations with the closed communist state was so revolutionary at the time that the phrase "like Nixon in China" has now become a popular analogy for hard-liners acting against their longstanding convictions...
...dividing this potent symbol of equality from the relics of apartheid are the Great African Steps, built with 150,000 bricks from the demolished cellblock. Rarely does the phrase "out of darkness comes light" have so much resonance. constitutionhill.org.za
...South Carolina and Nevada, along with his native Pennsylvania. In announcing his candidacy, Vilsack acknowledged the long odds, telling a crowd in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, that "I have always been an underdog and a long shot." He cast himself as a candidate with "the courage to create change", a phrase he invoked repeatedly in calling for an improved health care system, the end of bickering in Washington, an energy policy less dependent on foreign oil and pushing Iraqis to take control of their own security. "He may not be as well-known, he may not be as well-funded...