Word: retreatism
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...Undergraduate Council voted yesterday to deny a proposed plan that would have put copies of The New York Times in campus dining halls. Opening a meeting that occurred the day after a laser tag-themed UC retreat, President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 looked to defuse any verbal gunplay that might accompany consideration of the newspaper legislation. “I know this is sort of a testy issue, but I think we can get through it...politely,” he said. Even before Petersen’s comment, Soren Rosier...
...bewildering series of events converged to make this engagement party possible. My brother and his fiancé somehow got an extra two weeks off from their non-stop theater jobs in San Francisco, allowing them to come home that weekend. My job at Loyola New Orleans delayed its orientation retreat until August 14th, a few weeks later than normal. Everyone we knew from miles around happened to have the day free—my friends were leaving the next day for study abroad trips, and Pops’ singing friends had the rare day off from a barbershop performance. Most...
...that you would know it looking at his house. Agha lives in a graveyard. Land is at such a premium in Kabul these days that the dead compete with the living for space. A massive influx of refugees returning from exile following the Taliban's retreat has forced the near deserted neighborhoods fringing an old cemetery to squeeze between its graves. Agha's factory is his living room, where he has put his two wives and 11 children to work, cutting, shaping and gluing the intricate tissue-paper mosaics that make his kites stand out for their beauty and superior...
...Even as her husband was at the House Democrats retreat last weekend encouraging them to take incremental steps on policy, such as trying to reduce administrative costs in health care, Hillary Clinton was telling Democrats at the DNC event that the party should overcome "a sense of fatalism" and do bold things, as Edwards has been saying. And Edwards won't be rewarded for taking some honest stands. Told about Edwards's comments on the impossibility of balancing the budget and creating universal health care, Al From, who runs the centrist Democratic Leader Council, called it "a false choice...
...Education for Social Action” was created in 2002 by students in PBHA and continues to be planned and implemented by the organization’s Student Development Officer for the year. According to Corbin, incoming PBHA officers participated in an intense two-and-a-half-day training retreat, sponsored by PBHA and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations of the Kennedy School, to prepare them to manage the 72 programs and 1,800 volunteers within PBHA. Those teaching the new courses emphasized the potential benefit of the program to Harvard students. “Individuals are embedded...