Word: progressives
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...according to the Beijing Olympic Committee. The National Stadium, with its iconic "birds nest" design, will be finished in early 2008. A new north-south subway line is set to open in September, but other transportation improvements will be cutting it close. While Olympic committee members touted "significant construction progress" on five rail lines in an Aug. 6 press conference, completion of some key routes is not scheduled until next summer. Two more subway lines are scheduled to be finished next June, while an express train from the airport won't be running until July...
...conflict into a full-blown civil war. But American efforts to turn tribal leaders and armed Sunni groups against the jihadists in their midst have borne fruit in the security realm this year, although such groups remain harshly critical of the Maliki government. That government has made no discernible progress bringing Shi'ite militia groups under control, and is now contending with multiple defections and the possibility of being brought down by a no-confidence vote...
...vice provost for faculty development and diversity, whose office produced the report. “Harvard is starting to move in the right direction in terms of a University-wide approach to diversity, but it’s still early to be able to draw conclusions about our overall progress since trends will not be visible for some time...
...that can be fixed in a year, but we also shouldn’t make excuses,” Hyman said. “We should have a set of plans with the different faculties of the University, and set out in a very determined way, looking at our progress against benchmarks...
Hammonds says that progress has been made, including plans for a large child care facility in one of the planned Allston science complexes. She also said that she will be briefing Hyman and University President Drew G. Faust on a strategic framework for child care in the fall...