Word: precedentã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Furthermore, Wong’s suggestion that Harvard’s theater is confined to “precedent?? and lacks “risk-taking” is absurd. The upcoming season alone displays an incredibly creative range of productions—with many diverse casting opportunities—from an original multimedia, movement-based production about love and atomic physics to a new interpretation of an ancient Greek feminist comedy. And, while I disagree with Wong’s idealization of gender-blind and race-blind casting as a kind of theatrical cure...
...beginning of the semester. Finance Committee (FiCom) chair Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, explained that there was considerable concern that funding Mather’s foam machine would “set an unfortunate precedent?? that would lead other HoCos to also expect more money. Such money could only be given out by dipping into the grants fund that is currently allocated only for student groups...
...Wampler, Asians and Asian Americans are not well-represented in Harvard’s bureaucracy. At the reunion, nomination forms for positions on the Board of Overseers and as elected directors on HAA were available. Organizers said they hoped that the evening would set a “precedent?? for many future Asian and Asian American alumni events, and build a better network for the growing Asian and Asian American alumni community, something that according to recent graduate Jenny Huang ’03 “hasn’t been so strong...
...peer Ivy institutions matched donations for the tsunami, and only Yale did so for Katrina. President Summers should continue to utilize the University’s unique resources to aid disaster victims in whatever ways possible. But matching donations for the tsunami and for Katrina have set a dangerous precedent??recently broken by Harvard’s choice not to match donations for the earthquake in Kashmir—that encourages our community to judge Harvard’s responses solely on a monetary basis. It is a slippery slope that the University must not traverse. For future...
...known public statements on abortion: his circuit court confirmation hearing—in which he said that, as an appeals judge, he would uphold Supreme Court precedent??and a 1991 brief he signed on behalf of the first Bush administration while he was Deputy Solicitor General. The brief said that “we continue to believe that Roe [v. Wade] was wrongly decided and should be overruled...