Word: reaffirming
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...homogenous society. In fact, it is our differences that can often make life interesting and worth living. At a time when members of our campus, both administrators and students, are discussing the nature of student groups on campus, it is important that we recognize the inherent value of and reaffirm our support for student organizations that celebrate the uniqueness of various ethnic, cultural, and religious groups. And for the past 25 years, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, an organization whose name reflects its goal, has been committed to bringing students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds together...
...recipients are truly remarkable human beings and they’re definitely role models for the entire community at Harvard,” said Moore. “Events of this magnitude serve to not only uplift the community and bring us together but to also reaffirm our ties to the greater black community...
...toward democracy. Mindful of possible restrictions on $54 million in U.S. aid, Duvalier instituted a constitutional change to permit the existence of political parties, but only if the parties submitted to the government the names and addresses of at least 18,000 supporters. The referendum also asked voters to reaffirm the position of President-for-Life and give Baby Doc the right to name his successor...
Their exits will reshape Summers’ senior staff at a crucial moment in his administration. After this week’s vote of no confidence from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Summers and his staff face a difficult battle to reaffirm his stature at the University and redefine his public image...
Labels and rappers seize every opportunity to reaffirm their “gangsta” credentials to an unforgiving public. Curtis Jackson must be 50 Cent, twenty-four/seven. The problem is that 50 Cent is made up. He is nearly a cartoon—a hulking black superman who performs thug love to hundreds of women, parties incessantly while not drug dealing or murdering; and who, most importantly, is bulletproof. He cannot live up to that image, because it is impossible. Yet he and the public will continue to feed into it, until he is either exposed as fake...