Word: tantamount
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...including expansion into Allston and improvements to pedagogy, can be implemented without running out of “resource headroom.”A FIRM HANDAlso at yesterday’s meeting, the Faculty voted on a rare motion to dismiss a student from the College. Such motions are tantamount to a permanent severance of ties with Harvard. A two-thirds vote by the Faculty is required to pass the motion, and the action can only be reversed by another Faculty vote. In most cases, disciplinary action against students is the domain of the Administrative Board. In extreme cases?...
...Hagee, whose views on Catholicism caused controversy for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain when he endorsed the Arizona Senator, didn't charm many Palestinians, either - not even the Christians among them - when he said that "turning all or part of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban." So much for the fate of Jerusalem being on the agenda of the Bush Administration's peace initiative...
...thought-provoking statement came when she encouraged them to use their Ivy League educations as instruments for social change. “Ok. What else ya got?” Union asked of the many tables of Harvard students. Failing to use a Harvard degree to help others was tantamount to not receiving one, Union said. Aisha J. Dennis ’08, who founded and organized the first Crimson and Black Banquet in 2006, echoed Union’s words. “I operate in the philosophy that ‘To whom much is given, much more...
...northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, chanting, "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Kosovo is ours!" For Marko Jaksic, head of the Serbian National Council in Mitrovica, such action is not optional; a failure to rebel against "the formation of another Albanian state," he told a Serbian crowd in northern Kosovo, is "tantamount to treason...
...that that paper retained. Though the editors’ charge that the funding revocation was a response to their critical coverage, the student government president, Ron Chicken, claimed that the paper had violated SGA by-laws by hiring an attorney. There should be no question that freezing funds is tantamount to censorship in this case. Each year the Montclarion receives $33,000 in student financing and the loss of that money has meant a cancellation of last week’s issue and the loss of thousands of dollars in advertising—not to mention the loss of news...