Word: slates
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...intermediaries who help communicate messages from their clients to other terrorists. Yale University law professor Akhil Amar says concern is understandable, "but the government should come up with its own honors list of lawyers who could meet security clearances." The military model, by which lawyers are picked from a slate of officers, "could be easily adapted to all these situations," Amar says...
...Guangdong province in November, party leaders quashed media reports about its existence, fearing the public would stay home during the Chinese New Year holiday rather than spend money that could spur the economy. By early March, when the government convened the National People's Congress to inaugurate a new slate of senior leaders, doctors and members of China's state-controlled media say they knew about the growing crisis but were prevented from reporting it. "We had stories ready to run," says a journalist in Guangdong. "But before the Congress, we couldn't publish them, and after the Congress...
Friday’s slate of interviews came five months after the committee fired Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, claiming that she had not moved quickly enough to address the schools’ wide disparity in performance along race and class lines—the so-called “achievement gap”—and that she failed to communicate adequately with parents and teachers...
...asphalt walks all over the Yard are awful. Dartboard’s own poor Los Angeles inner-city public high school did a better job of filling potholes. This is especially bad because in this case, Yale shows us up so thoroughly. Their Old Campus is criss-crossed by slate walks. True, cars often need access to the Yard, and slate driveways may not be able to handle all that weight. But cars don’t have to drive all over the Yard; there are plenty of ugly asphalt paths that could simply be torn...
...less culture shocked than many of my classmates,” she says. “I didn’t grow up with this big mantle over my head about Harvard. I didn’t have any great expectations. I came here with a fairly blank slate...