Word: scopes
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Given these expansions in the role of commission and the scope of campaigns, the council must also give the commission sufficient time to do its job properly. Among other major failures the past year, former council president Sujean S. Lee ’03 and the council’s executive board appointed a commission only weeks before the start of elections—causing frustrating delays in voting and rushing Monteiro’s commission...
...among students, the IOP is blessed with the financial, political, and human resources to make a positive change in this worsening situation. While the IOP has traditionally operated mainly within the Harvard community, the students and staff at the Institute are enthusiastic about the prospect of expanding the scope of our programming in order to make a national impact. For this reason, we have been soliciting the opinions of students and others on how best to use our resources on a national scale. Executed properly, such a move will provide a valuable public service in a broad sense while improving...
...There is at least one more reason we grasp for the common experience of sadness. Tragedy, and specifically the shuttle disaster, with its epic scope and spectacular visuals, brings us together in a way very few things do these days, says Dr. Robert Butterworth, a psychologist and bereavement specialist. "There are so few places left in our society where we can agree, where we're not debating and fighting with each other," he says. This kind of universal loss transcends divisions established by politics or religion, he adds, and unites us in our grief. We've all experienced this strange...
White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has all along been oblique about how the Bush Administration reads the measure, which was strenuously opposed by the securities industry. In a response last month to the two Senators' protests, he said, "Questions about the scope of [the whistle-blower provision] will ultimately be addressed by the courts." --By Viveca Novak
...This is not the first time the rinpoche (meaning "precious one," as reincarnate lamas are called) has broadened the scope of what he wryly terms his "usual sort of profession." In 1992, after meeting director Bernardo Bertolucci through friends in London, he served as an adviser on Bertolucci's Little Buddha, parts of which were shot in Bhutan. Then in 1998 he brought a small crew that included several of his longtime Western students to a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, to shoot The Cup, a film based on the true story of the young resident monks' impious obsession with...