Word: tactically
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Hastrup’s accusation that the solidarity among Harvard minority groups and allies is only a publicity tactic, and not a genuine initiative to denounce hate crimes at Harvard, is unfounded and unfair. It is important that students, and most importantly minorities, have the ability to publicly send the message that every student has a right to be free from violence and harassment. It is also important that the University endorse this message for it to uphold its academic mission. To claim that hateful incidents on campus have no relation to the discrimination belittles the experiences of hate crime...
...open to the Senate’s version of the act. According to Burden, leaving the renewal of the Patriot Act to days before its expiration has been characterized as political brinksmanship intended to pressure moderates with some reservations to pass the measure. If so, Burden said, the tactic clearly backfired with the failure of the cloture vote. But the increased pressure now may be exactly what Congress needs to resolve controversy on aspects of the Patriot Act, Burden said. Like many students, Burden said, Congress needs deadlines to get things done. “This week is sort...
...demonstration’s organizers. That largely unprofessional cast performs admirably in the film. Watkins wrote little of the actors’ dialogue beforehand. Like fellow Brit filmmaker Mike Leigh, Watkins prefers to give his performers scenarios and allow them to improvise their speech accordingly. This tactic pays off best in the film’s tribunal scenes: the actors’ performances are unforced and wholly convincing. No one is guilty of self-consciously “acting.”However, neither the film’s excellent DVD transfer, its illuminating extra features, nor its guileless acting...
...four hours a month or six days a year, Wachovia employees are guaranteed paid time off for community service. A glowing, comprehensive memo from corporate community-service advocate and CEO Ken Thompson on the year's employee-volunteer accomplishments (600,000 volunteer hours in 2004) is another company tactic to facilitate charitable action...
...campaign, Operation Spotlight, is a new--and some fear dangerous--tactic by the self-named Minutemen, the anti- illegal-immigrant group that in April began standing watch on the Arizona-Mexico border to intercept people crossing into the U.S. The group has caught few border jumpers but generated lots of attention for its cause and is now turning its focus in from the border, staging Operation Spotlight protests not only in Phoenix but also in the California cities of Laguna Beach, Lake Forest and San Bernardino as well as Herndon, Va. There are plans for demonstrations at day-labor centers...