Word: reasserted
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...Radcliffe tried to reassert its right to the Cronkhite Graduate Center--a large building that the Institute owns--but was met with a bevy of criticism from graduate students at other Harvard schools who live there...
...represents yet another example of the judiciary's effort to abuse its authority. To date, Khatami has deferred to the court's authority on this matter. Yet with the trials following so closely on the heels of the newspaper closings, this could be a critical opportunity for Khatami to reassert his leadership to national and global communities without risking a clerical coup. The youth are clearly behind Khatami and his reform-minded agenda. However, there is always the risk that they will become impatient with Khatami's conciliatory approach and seek more radical change. Despite their restrictive upbringing, they have...
...Hong Kong's fate was decided by its British colonial rulers, Taiwan's is in the hands of an increasingly assertive electorate. "The overwhelming majority of voters are native Taiwanese who?ve always considered themselves separate from China," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Democracy has allowed them to reassert control after a century of domination, first by the Japanese and then by nationalist emigres from the mainland...
...mathematician's ears, there is something else going on. Typically, after a few seconds of chaotic clapping, an audience will slip into synchronized applause, like two people adjusting their strides until they walk in step. But just as walkers will reassert their natural gait, a clap-happy audience will fall in and out of synch repeatedly. According to a study of ovations in Romania and Hungary, this back-and-forthing is due to conflicting needs: the wish to make the most possible noise (random clapping) vs. the urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other...
...There is a great deal of disdain,and therefore we have to reassert our moral authority. Moral authorityshould not be left for religious leaders alone. As educators, we have anobligation to set the moral tone of the nation...