Word: shedding
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...yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Without the oratorical fireworks that had grown commonplace and that some of the 200 professors packed into University Hall were anticipating, Lawrence H. Summers used his last meeting as University president to exhort the Faculty to shed tradition and overhaul its approach to education and research.“I believe the Faculty as a whole can do much more to meet the challenge of the moment by moving beyond existing structures and approaches to higher education,” Summers said. “Our resources...
...some Americans do inherit their fandom.) The same emotions course through me as I consider how a Barça victory would confirm so much: they play the most attractive football in recent memory; Ronaldinho is a player for the ages; once and for all, Barça will shed their lineage of underachievement. But there's no way that I will be able to fully enjoy this game, to root against Henry and other Arsenal players I love. Even if Barça wins, I fear I will have lost...
...what the newly revealed data-mining program isn't doing. "We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans," he insisted. "Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaeda terrorists and its affiliates." But no one in his Administration was willing to shed any light on how it is using the information it is getting or what the value of the whole exercise has been. White House officials hint that only long-distance calls, not local ones, are in the database, but they won't go much further. Even some of the President...
Such descriptions shed light on seemingly self-destructive behavior like biting, scratching, spinning and head banging. For people like Rajapatirana, banging against a wall can be a useful way to tell, quite literally, where their head is at. "Before we extinguish [such behaviors], we need to understand what they are telling us," writes Judith Bluestone, a Seattle-based therapist who is autistic, in The Fabric of Autism...
...review is fairly straightforward. The main criterion used by the court is whether a case would give “the country a uniform interpretation of federal law,” Breyer said. “We are not an error-correcting court.” Breyer also shed light into the justices’ secret Friday conferences—where the nine meet to choose cases and deliberate opinions—and how the law clerks contribute to the court’s operations. He said that all the appeals petitions that the court receives are read...