Word: tides
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This vast supply of energy and education for public service at Harvard, largely undiscovered and untapped by students 50 years ago, meets a tide of student demand today. Almost every event at the KSG is filled to the rafters, as are the many classes elsewhere in the University that deal with government, policy, politics, the Constitution, and managing public institutions. Harvard’s students want to know how they can be part of the solution to the nation’s and world’s problems. The KSG and IOP reach out to respond...
...Hunan Province got an unusual glimpse recently of the perils that come with their spouses' new jobs. The bemused group was taken to the Hunan Women's Prison for an up-close and personal look at the consequences should their husbands become engulfed by the country's rising tide of corruption...
...Blair came to power in 1997 buoyed by a huge parliamentary majority and even bigger expectations of what New Labour could accomplish. He led his party to two more general election victories, the last only 15 months ago. Yet today he's on the ropes, forced by an overwhelming tide of opinion in his party and the country to say when he'll leave Downing Street - or face the humiliation of being forced out. In a public statement Thursday (no questions permitted), he confirmed hints from Cabinet allies that he'd quit within a year, but rebuffed calls...
Both books cite studies, surveys, statistics, along with some hair-raising anecdotes, on how a rising tide of dull, useless assignments is oppressing families and making kids hate learning. A few highlights from the books and my own investigation...
...July 6 and asked him to provide information about his kirpan. Johal contacted the Sikh Coalition, a group started by former Harvard Divinity School student Harpreet Singh in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in order to educate Americans about the religion and stem the rising tide of hate crimes against Sikhs...