Word: promptings
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This Sunday evening, the Undergraduate Council (UC) will decide whether to add a referendum to the UC presidential ballot in December that would call on FAS to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The vote will mobilize the student body, prompt debate in the dining halls about climate change and—most importantly—add to the growing pressure on FAS administrators to take action...
...reliable thanks to voice recognition from the brainiacs at VoiceSignal. If you don?t want to voice dial, you can press the ?No? button, which leads you to the next option, a list of phone numbers. Press ?No? again, and you get a call history, followed by a prompt to listen to voicemail. A final ?No? takes you to a screen of quick stats: battery life, signal strength and approximate used minutes...
...LSAT, which administers the test, announced Monday that starting in June 2007, the reading comprehension section will include a comparative reading portion and the writing section—which is not currently scored—will have one essay prompt instead...
...conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, in fact (see the interview with him on page B2). But this thin volume reflects two decades of his rethinking on war’s permissibility and the proper role of law—a rethinking that he says was prompted by questions from students who urged military intervention in war-torn Bosnia and Darfur. The result is spectacular. Kennedy’s book is extremely nuanced, as it should be, given his subject. And the prose is immensely readable: clearly expressed, full of examples to highlight abstract points, and organized so well that...
Kennedy does note that international law has its importance in determining what constitutes a just war, but he makes a convincing case that the law’s “humanitarian potential”—its ability to prompt humanitarian interventions in places like Bosnia and Darfur—is overstated. The solution, Kennedy argues, is to ground just war doctrine in ethics...