Word: referents
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...Blanks.’—with a period at the end,” John T. Drake ’06 says while selling his band’s wares at the Paradise Rock Club. And he’s serious. “If you must refer to us as ‘the Blanks.’ make sure that ‘the’ is in lowercase. We’re grammar Nazis.”Sheesh. Even the indie rock bands at this school are perfectionists.Hoping to make a splash on the national...
...months, Russia and China have been stalling the West's efforts to refer Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council. Last week, Russia finally backed an IAEA resolution to do so, only upon the condition that the Council doesn't take up the issue until March. Meanwhile, pundits believe, Putin had hoped to defuse the crisis by persuading Iran to shift its uranium-enrichment to Russia, which would deny it the ability to use such facilities on its own soil to produce weapons-grade material...
...displeasure with the president, the new resolution reflects rising frustration with the Corporation’s continued silence on the Summers storm. The motion, which was put on the docket by Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Daniel S. Fisher and obtained by The Crimson tonight, does not refer to Summers by name, nor does it mention the word “resign.” But its text implicitly calls for an administrative shake-up at the highest levels of the University. Another motion, put on the docket last week by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature...
...long after college.Yet the filmmakers do have one thing in common with respect to their education: all cite a Harvard faculty member as a major influence on their respective bodies of work. For Cutler, it was Professor of Film Studies Bill Rothman ’65. Greenfield and Micheli refer to Arnhein Lecturer on Filmmaking Rob Moss, who saw an early cut of the film, and who Greenfield said provided “some much-needed perspective.”Back at Sundance, Greenfield, Cutler, and Micheli seemed to be gaining some perspective of their own. Though there is much...
...rally the world" against the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. The next step in that effort came Thursday, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna to discuss Iran. On the table was a resolution introduced by Britain, France and Germany, calling on the IAEA to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for what it calls Iran's "many failures and breaches of its obligations" under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The resolution notes that Iran's history of concealment of certain nuclear activities has produced an "absence of confidence that Iran's nuclear program...