Word: reasserting
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...nurse and a fisherman, Chadbourne always loved music and storytelling. She laughs, remembering, “I was given piano lessons from the age of five, and I was always mad about stories. Funny how the thing you love when you are little are the things that reassert themselves when you grow up.” Through time and experience, her interests focused on Irish music and storytelling in particular. She recalls when she realized how important Irish stories would be to her: “I was studying abroad in Cork, in Ireland, my junior year of college...
Perhaps Rumsfeld is counting on the first war of the 21st century to shake the brass out of its cold war mentality. But it may be that he has already accomplished most of what he came to do: reassert civilian control of a military that had grown used to getting its way. As photocopiers cranked out the deployment orders last week for Rumsfeld to consider at his own unpredictable pace, top military officers admitted they are scrambling to think ahead, no longer waiting for him to O.K. their every move. Any delay, they said, would be risky with...
...less people who are in a very strong, emotional, ready-to-fight-for-Summers place, and that’s a bit of a cost of moving hard to placate your opponents,” Glaeser said.Summers, of course, would be hard-pressed to listen to his supporters and reassert forceful control over the University without angering his detractors even more.“If he would go that route, I think he’d have an even more rebellious faculty on his hands,” according to James T. Kloppenberg, the Kemper professor of American history.Finding...
...offers of this nature time and again. Following up on the general agreement in the IAEA meeting, the U.S. should seek the support of the Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran with an eye to reigning the current regime in, or more hopefully, encouraging grassroots democracy movements to reassert themselves. Undoubtedly, the U.S. will face resistance from China and Russia, who benefit from favorable oil contracts with Tehran today. To the extent possible—while respecting the autonomy of the Iranian people—the U.S. should assuage Chinese and Russian fears that a new Iranian administration would...
...launch perhaps the most potent challenge to presidential power in recent memory. Some Summers watchers say that Harvard’s 27th president has asserted more control over the individual schools than his recent predecessors.If professors take control of the search for Kirby’s successor and reassert their own authority over FAS, would that be a revolution?Rather, it might be more of a restoration—a return to the status quo from earlier eras of Harvard history.“Historically, the deans were independent and controlled their own fiefdoms,” said Andrew Schlesinger...