Word: sacrosanctity
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...Should Canadians, who consider their public system sacrosanct, panic? Here's a primer on the main issues on the table...
...closed off and we’re back to the drawing board – but if more robust solutions of this sort can be found we might be able to sidestep the politics altogether.Harvard is an institution that idolizes free speech, in a country that holds these values sacrosanct. It behooves us to cast a wide net in searching out violations of these principles. Our own firewall should perhaps offend our sensibilities as students, but the restricted intellectual freedom of Chinese citizens ought to offend our sensibilities as people, and we should actively seek to restore these rights...
...appointed to lay the groundwork for new tax legislation reported back last week with an unsalable hash that one senior Administration official called "a dog." So White House and Treasury officials will have to rewrite it, stripping out, among other things, a proposal to scale back the politically sacrosanct home-mortgage tax break, before Bush spells out particulars in his State of the Union address in January. With foreign travel and the holidays eating up the end of this year, his advisers concede that Bush has little chance of getting back his mojo before then...
...yard, articulating something simple but insightful about Harvard. When graduation rolls around, every yard around campus undergoes a sudden makeover. Tailored by teams of landscapers and decked out in tents and stages and banners, they become the centerpieces of the school’s famed pomp and circumstance, the sacrosanct, stately grounds of the old academy where Latinate phrases and laminate cards, heartfelt hugs and Kleenex, and clicking cameras abound. Of course, the glut of decoration aside, the scenes those cameras capture seem more real, painfully, bittersweetly real, than anything else that happens at Harvard. But what those graduation photos...
Countless cups of coffee, typing in Cabot until dawn, days spent underground in Widener on a laptop. For many students, these are the defining moments of Reading Period, a supposedly sacrosanct time for Harvard students to study in peace...