Word: recession
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...Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP) continues to expand its spring recess programs, adding a cultural exchange with Hong Kong University with funding from the Crimson China Cultural Exchange Foundation (CCCEF). HCAP, which is entering its third year, hosted 22 students from Beijing University and National Taiwan University at Harvard last February, and sent 21 Harvard students to Beijing and Taipei during spring recess last year. This year, HCAP will host 40 students from top universities in Beijing, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, and Hong Kong at Harvard, and send 95 Harvard students to those cities in late March, according to Jonathan...
...classmates to blurt out an answer. But every time the teacher calls on her, Abby freezes. Her face tightens. She strains to respond. And even if an answer manages to get past her lips, her words are inaudible. She's effectively mute throughout the school day--even at recess, where the closest she will come to open communication is words whispered to a trusted girlfriend...
...overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein; "for personal reasons," he said in a statement; in Baghdad. The Iraqi government did not immediately accept the resignation of Amin, who has been criticized for allowing Saddam's frequent outbursts. The trial is set to resume this week after a month's recess...
...appeal backfired by reopening dissent against the Washington campaign itself. Andrew Young warned that the whole plan might be moot for the year, anyway, as the tangled logistics could well push the start back into June, when the summer recess of Congress would deprive them of "Pharaoh" rulers to plague. Young proposed to make constructive use of delay, and questioned the enormous effort to assemble and maintain a novel protest army of polyglot poor people in Washington. He doubted King's white attorney and closest confidant Stanley Levison's analogy with the Bonus Marchers of 1932-34, whose suffering...
...they’re either incredibly vague, or incredibly limited, depending on how you like your constitutional theory. The Constitution specifically enumerates a very mundane, ho-hum list of executive powers—things like receiving ambassadors, appointing officials to vacant positions during the recess of the Senate, and so on—yet none having to do with determining the level of danger at which constitutional prerogatives go by the way-side (that belongs, appropriately, to the judiciary). Likewise, the Constitution doesn’t provide for the executive to supersede any other law that might confound...