Word: platform
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Candidates T. Christopher King '01 and Fentrice D. Driskell '01 introduced the topic, campaigning on a platform which called for "building a healthier Harvard...
...fourth popular top office elections in Undergraduate Council history, Noah Z. Seton '00 and Kamil E. Redmond '00 were elected by a decisive margin to serve as the next president and vice president of the student body. The hundreds of students who voted Seton-Redmond supported a platform melding a broader vision of student services with a return to progressivism on the council...
...heard to solve our problems of separation, an Undergraduate Council presidential candidate promised to forge a "Healthier Community." The Crimson derided such plans last week as too "vague." But the paper seized upon the wrong word; it wasn't just a weak choice of adjectives that rendered the platform suspect. The point that painting the whole College as one community might be fraudulent never came up. Yes, students at the Law School or School of Education, usually bound by similar pasts and futures, truly have something. But students here haven't all come from similar backgrounds and don't necessarily...
...understory palm trees make baskets from branches growing out of their trunks, which become compost machines for falling leaves, which in turn sustain the trees. Since the soil is not deep enough for roots to penetrate, the larger trees like the ceiba have buttresses that lie flat on the platform of the forest; some of the narrower trees are supported by stilt-roots at the base that look like whisk brooms. The Parkia tree rises to the sun and spreads a flat umbrella over the others. There is full employment. Trees support lizards and insects, which themselves support birds...
Wilson also said the welfare reform bill signed by President Clinton in 1996 had a much different focus from the vision he presented in 1992. The original platform included comprehensive health and child care--along with public sector jobs--as a last resort...