Word: procession
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...There's not any kind of magical formulation" to the Grammy nomination process, says Bill Freimuth, the Recording Academy's vice president of awards. Lonely Island's record company, Universal Republic, submitted the track, which was then approved by a screening committee. "They listened to it and said, 'Well, there's rapping and there's singing. Sure, why not?' " After that, the academy's 12,000 voting members gave "I'm on a Boat" the nomination. Freimuth agrees with Samberg about the T-Pain bump, saying the Auto-Tune master's participation "gave it that much more legitimacy...
Buying food for the 32 Co-op residents can be a daunting task, according to Rebecca R. Rojer ’10, but the Co-op residents split up duties to make the process easier...
...Harvard announced a 50-year plan for nine to 10 million square feet of new construction in Allston. More specificity was provided in a March 2008 list of projects totaling 2.1 million square feet that would begin Boston’s permitting process by 2013. But Harvard’s Allston and Brighton land holdings are so vast that even this massive expansion would not touch more than 20 acres of its Allston and Brighton property...
Referring to Harvard’s admissions process, the former Harvard president, Derek Bok, recently commented to The Boston Globe: “The great triumph is when you find someone in an unlikely place who against all odds achieved something.” Might the Harvard community apply the same spirit and, against today’s odds, achieve something in Allston and Brighton...
Sivak acknowledges Morales' sometimes autocratic bent. "He inherited this from his years as a union leader," he says. "He has trouble trusting others, and so it means he's involved in 50 decisions every day, which is not always a good thing." But the process earlier this year to rewrite Bolivia's constitution, which increased indigenous rights and let Morales run for President one more time, satisfied democratic criteria; and even Morales' decision last year to expel the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly meddling in Bolivian politics was supported by most Bolivians, who feel Washington's insistence...