Word: sways
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...Harvard affiliation may play in the trial, Weinreb said different juries may respond to this fact in different ways. But, he said, it is certainly a point that the prosecution or defense could try to use to their advantage, though he doubted that the Harvard name would hold much sway. Whiting agreed, saying that the media would be much more focused on the Harvard name than the jury...
...that distributing treats around evaluation time was a fairly common practice among professors and teaching fellows. Not all students, however, are convinced of chocolate’s power. Jessica L. Flakne ’11 said over the weekend that she was skeptical about the power of food to sway student opinion. “They probably won’t win too many brownie points with me just by bringing in baked goods,” she said. The study, entitled “Fudging the Numbers: Distributing Chocolate Influences Student Evaluations of an Undergraduate Course...
Welcome to the Care Rehabilitation Center, part of a three-year-old experiment to reform malleable minds who have fallen under the sway of Osama bin Laden's radical brand of Islam. To get here, jihadis have to demonstrate during a prison interview a readiness to rethink their extremist views. (About 20% of the 1,875 holy warriors invited to participate have refused.) The program, developed by a team of Islamic scholars, psychiatrists and sociologists, tries to convince these men of their mistakes and make them productive members of Saudi society, which has been rocked by terrorism: al-Qaeda attacks...
...discourse about Israel. The array of evidence Mearsheimer and Walt marshal to make their arguments is frequently astounding, largely because of the impressive reach and influence of the lobby itself. In their chapter on the lobby’s influence on the government, the authors clearly document the unhealthy sway that the lobby has had on Capitol Hill, essentially blocking or forcing from power large numbers of Congressional hopefuls or preventing the advancement of sitting Congressmen who fail to side with the lobby’s interests. Equally convincing and alarming is the pair’s examination...
...uneasy truce prevailed in the area between U.S. forces and the Mahdi Army, the militia headed by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Both sides seemed eager to avoid a repeat of the open clashes that erupted in 2004 in Karbala and Najaf, where Sadr's militia holds sway. So U.S. troops generally stayed away...