Word: thingness
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...digitally available content, centralizing technical services, and streamlining staff duties. Nevertheless, Brainard said that HCL is "spread very thinly right now" in terms of its budget—although she could not provide specific figures—and that administrators must "figure out how to support all the things we support at the College library with less money."William C. Kirby, former dean of FAS and now director of the Fairbank Center, wrote in an e-mailed statement that while the changes in circulation at Fung are of lesser importance, "much more worrisome is the diminution of [HCL's] services...
...enjoyed your issue about 1989 being the significant year that it was. But I am surprised about one thing: the ousting and demise of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania was totally ignored. I thought that was a very important event from that year. He was a man who had ruled harshly for nearly 25 years and the end of his dictatorship was one of the main turning points for freedom in Eastern Europe. Robert Cobb, Auckland, New Zealand...
...Supreme Court Justices shouldn't - and don't - make policy? It's too bad that neither Sotomayor nor any of the Senators felt at liberty to say what many scholars and court observers believe to be true: Justices often legislate from the bench, and sometimes that's a good thing...
...attempted assassinations of foreign leaders, including Fidel Castro. During the worst of it, the CIA wondered if it would survive. It did. But it was saddled with an order prohibiting assassination, and in 1981 Ronald Reagan amended it as Executive Order 12333. In the CIA, that was the closest thing we had to the Ten Commandments. So I can imagine the sensitivities in the Clinton White House when it heard rumors that the CIA was planning to assassinate Saddam. It did not want to face the furor that would follow a failed attempt to kill anyone.(Read "Should Panetta Have...
...mistrust," Estemirova said in 2007, as she accepted HRW's Human Rights Defender Award. "Those who witness abuse keep silent, for if they speak, they can soon become a victim. Can you imagine living each day wondering who might turn you in to the government for saying the wrong thing...