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...recuse himself from official action to avoid a conflict (answer: rarely). The most basic stricture of House ethics guidelines gives the ethics committee leeway to act or not act in almost any case. It requires that a congressman ?shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.? In more extreme cases, they investigate colleagues and recommend punishments that range from barely a wrist-slap to expulsion. The panels sometimes seem moved to action as much by a frenzy of press attention to a specific case as by its severity...
...Hinks ’06 first took to the stage at age four. Sure, her role only required her to sit still, and she was only cast because of her ability to pay attention, but none of that mattered—it was the experience, one she still fondly reflects upon as “wonderful.” Since then, Spillane-Hinks—a resident of the Dudley Co-op—has never been far from the theater. As a child, her classes included dance and drama and much of her time was spent in New Haven?...
...most familiar to western ears; the band’s beats and riffs are dense and quick-paced, introducing dissonance into supple vocals and generally submerging traditional melodies in a wash of sound that would be at home in any scenester dance club. Other bands on this album reflect varying degrees of similar fusion. On Masanka Sankayi’s track, electronic effects add a sheen of crackle to the singer’s voice, but it is ultimately the beat of skin-against-wood that carries the song. Then there’s Sobanza Mimanisa, who root their song...
Further, both episodes reflect a troubling fear on the part of the administration that Harvard students are prone to violence when confronted with opinions with which they disagree. If nothing else, this recent Salient incident has shown such fears to be baseless: the most visible response to the publication of the cartoons has been a civil discussion organized by the Harvard Interfaith Council and the Harvard Political Union, and co-sponsored by various campus religious and political organizations...
...this year's World Economic Forum. "This locomotive has changed the whole structure of the global economy," said Zhu. "The U.S. and Japan are no longer the global-growth engine." At the end of last year, China officially adjusted the size of its economy in an attempt to better reflect the plethora of activity taking place that wasn't counted in previous, Soviet-style central-planning statistics. The upshot was a 16.8% increase in gross domestic product that pushed China's economy past France's into fifth place worldwide--just behind the U.S., Japan, Germany and Britain...