Word: reaffirms
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...Earlier in the meeting, professors voted overwhelmingly to reaffirm the College’s mission to offer a liberal arts education, redefining it as “an education conducted in a spirit of inquiry rewarding in its own sake...
High school students have a right to free speech, even if that speech concerns something controversial. This is a principle that the Supreme Court has affirmed in the past, and one that it should reaffirm in deciding a case it heard last week concerning a student who was punished for displaying a drug-related message across the street from his school. The case concerns Joseph Frederick, a high school student who was suspended for holding up a 14-foot banner that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” on the sidewalk next to his school...
...Just generally there’s been a bit of tension...[and] we would really like to reaffirm a partnership and work with the community,” he said to the crowd of nearly 100. “We’re not trying to be a quick hit developer...
Great art has that funny tendency to reaffirm one’s confidence in the universal bonds of humanity, and to recognize those extraordinary bonds in ordinary pursuits. With this tendency in mind, members of the Harvard Early Music Society have indulged their shared love for a series of vocal works from the French baroque master Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and turned it into “Metamorphoses,” an intimate yet operatic fusion of dance, theater, and music that will premiere at the Horner Room at Agassiz Theatre...
...After Bush declared his unbending support for Rumsfeld last week, it was telling how few aides and advisers to the President were willing to reaffirm what the President had said. When asked about Bush's Rumsfeld comments, one official didn't try to hide the pain the question caused him. He wouldn't talk about it. He and others made it clear that the President said "what he had to say." In other words, Bush's support for Rumsfeld would last only until the last polling station closed on Tuesday night...