Word: platformization
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...cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s umbrella organization for public service, elected Alicia Rodriguez ’07 as its next president at a meeting last night in the PBHA Parlor Room. Rodriguez, who is currently PBHA secretary, ran on a platform of developing student leadership, increasing recruitment, improving access to Harvard resources, and tightening focus within PBHA’s 77 community service programs. “It’s important to make sure we don’t let in so many programs that the programs we do have cannot make...
...will be simple enough, what did the constitutional fathers (no mothers, obviously) have in mind when they guaranteed the right of men and women to marry? What did they mean by "nation"? Today, Spain's consuming debate is not about the economy, terrorism, immigration - it's semantics, stupid. The platform on which "macho" Spain elected Zapatero in March of last year included pulling the troops out of Iraq and legalizing homosexual marriage. He's done both, and the latter move has outraged the PP. Backed by the bishops, it has rushed to the Constitutional Court, insisting it's implicit...
...sincere yet unremarkable praise of his conduct in this world and his fate in the next. The final speaker was a friend of my grandfather’s who had also served in the pacific theater during the Second World War. The marine made his way up to the platform slowly. Everything about him suggested that it would not be very long until he too would be the subject of a eulogy: his slow gait, his strained voice, and his palpable age all gave the impression that this was a friend who knew he would be saying goodbye for only...
...demographic long ignored by Cambridge pols, considered by most observers to be a transient group with little interest in the civic goings-on of their temporary home. DeBergalis cast aside this conventional wisdom and embraced students as an untapped resource, canvassing dormitories at Harvard and MIT and shaping his platform around student-friendly issues such as late-night restaurant hours and bicycle safety. A month before Election Day in 2003, longtime local pundit Robert Winters said the dark horse candidate didn’t “have a chance in hell.” But as early votes came...
...world that have standardized on Microsoft technology, so when you look at the realities of the business, you say, "Is it better to try to fight or partner in this environment?" The one big thing that we wanted was to bring the Palm experience to the [Windows Mobile 5.0] platform. Microsoft worked very closely with us to enable that...