Word: reformer
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...like many overcommitted Harvard students, are admittedly High Holidays Jews. We shuffle into synagogue for reform services (in Memorial Church, no less) twice a year, to atone for the other 50 weeks of spiritual laziness. Fortunately, the two most sacred holidays of the Jewish year fall during shopping period, leaving us ample time to get our annual fix of religion. Hillel has two chances a year to draw in the silent majority of reform Jews, the biggest Jewish contingent at Harvard but the one with the fewest regular participants at Hillel. During Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year...
...know that the reform minion had no control of these melodies, and aside from the mel-odious prayers, the service was enjoyable (and the participants were top notch, if we do say so ourselves). Hillel tried hard to rein in the renegade cantor, convincing him to chant less in the High Holidays themes and more in the familiar everyday melodies...
...record, now seems untenable. Even as Kerry paints a bleak picture for the future of our nation, the American people seem to recognize the stimulus to our economy brought on by tax cuts and other investment incentives, the benefits of the president’s bi-partisan education reform, and most relevant to tomorrow’s debate, the progress that has been made in the War on Terror...
...thinker, writer and agent of change. Since he was elected as the federal member for Melbourne in 1993, the tall and easy-going former union official has been at the forefront of his party's renewal - gently nudging his colleagues to modernize their ideas, arguing for reform in the public domain and working within traditonal political structures. He's rarely inspired headlines or been the front man for a social movement. Despite a talent for communicating, he's not the publicity-seeking type. Yet Tanner's influence on Labor, and the broader political agenda, is arguably more pronounced than Latham...
...changes to education and communications policies that are now mainstream. He drew attention to the Murray-Darling river system and predicted that "Australians may soon be referring to the water issue in the same way we now talk about the environment or taxation." He pushed hard, and successfully, to reform Labor's internal structure. He highlighted growing social alienation and suggested approaches to community-building. When Latham spouted Third Way ideas, Tanner dissed them as empty pragmatism: "It is mere cocktail politics; pour two nips of market forces, throw in a few platitudes, add a dash of socialism and stir...