Word: shield
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...message across, it does not address the root of the problem, which is not information flow but blatant discrimination. Harvard will not solve its “gay problem” with the purchase of 6000 additional manila envelopes; instead it must clearly, without the shield of Robert’s Rules of Order, indicate its support for the civil rights of gay students and then firmly support those rights at every opportunity. Administrators can begin this process by allowing the GSA to stuff its information in next February’s registration packet...
...which was turned down because her brother, who is not licensed in Louisiana, wired the house. She doesn't have air-conditioning or a refrigerator. When friends e-mail her pictures of the giant steel structures protecting London and Amsterdam, she gets riled, contemplating the "crappy" earthen mounds that shield her own city. But she's staying put. Her husband has a great job as an underwater diver in the Gulf, and she loves her friends and her work as a music librarian. "We didn't want to cop out. This is history. This is a great city...
...dentists, 250), near Yuma, Ariz., into dusty dental centers. Los Algodones might rake in as much as $150 million during the winter season. People from Minnesota and California arrive in chartered planes to get their teeth fixed in these dental oases. Two California insurers, Health Net and Blue Shield, for the past few years have marketed popular health-insurance plans, aimed at Latinos, that charge lower premiums and cover treatment on both sides of the border...
...School of Education. The study, “Paying for College: The Rising Cost of Higher Education,” found that college related expenses have increased by 7 percent since the 1992-1993 academic year. Co-sponsored by Massachusetts Institute for New Commonwealth (MassINC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the study also noted that families are paying more for public colleges, from 18% of their income in 1992-1993 to 21 percent in 2003-2004. Ian A. Bowles ’87, President and CEO of MassINC, says that his company decided to sponsor this study because...
...Almost 18 whole hours after the performance, Daou determined that the shtick - or, as one commenter put it, "a work of staggering genius that could only be pulled off by a man with testicles the size of Alpha Centauri" - was being ignored by the mainstream media in order to "shield Bush from negative publicity." Daou even intuited why they didn?t laugh: because they were shamed "when Colbert put them in their place...