Word: ribboning
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Most blue-ribbon studies start gathering dust the minute they are printed. This one, with 79 recommendations in just 99 pages, was unveiled on network TV and in the first few days shot up to No. 3 on the Amazon best-seller list. The panel members worked overtime on the launch, doing carefully choreographed rounds of interviews with reporters and anchors before Baker and Hamilton motored back to the Hill to start selling their plan to Congress. The core message: the Bush Administration has to work and think a lot harder to achieve even modest goals in Iraq--and should...
With global AIDS advocacy culminating last Friday on World AIDS Day, Harvard AIDS activists spent a busy week flocking from one speaker event to another, tying red strips on tree trunks, and decking Grays Hall with a giant red ribbon made out of Christmas lights...
...Bush and the war, she promised only that her party would give the report's recommendations "full consideration" - not its stamp of approval. Pelosi has been leery of the commission from the start, because she had no hand in picking its Democratic members. Normally legislation setting up such blue-ribbon panels has a clause specifying that congressional Democratic and Republican leaders will have a hand in picking members. But the measure creating this panel, sponsored by G.O.P. Congressman Frank Wolf, left those choices up to the co-chairs, former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton...
...South African landscape, physically and culturally," and South African architects OMM Design Workshop and Urban Solutions have built an inspiring legacy. The foyer's slanted mosaic pillars and silver leaflike lights are a metaphor for the trees under which Africans traditionally resolve legal disputes. In the sunken courtroom, a ribbon of glass at street level ensures that justice is always visible to those it should protect...
...foyer's slanted mosaic pillars and silver leaflike lights are a metaphor for the trees under which Africans traditionally resolve legal disputes. In the sunken courtroom, a ribbon of glass at street level ensures that justice is always visible to those it should protect. And dividing this potent symbol of equality from the relics of apartheid are the Great African Steps, built with 150,000 bricks from the demolished cellblock. Rarely does the phrase "out of darkness comes light" have so much resonance. constitutionhill.org.za