Word: topicalism
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...This growing protest comes ahead of the Oct. 19 G-7 meeting in Washington, where European vexation over hands-off American attitudes toward the weakening dollar will be a main topic of discussion. Long a complaint aired primarily by the French, American willingness to allow the dollar to slip, which makes U.S. exports cheaper compared to foreign rivals, is now being denounced by a growing number of E.U. officials. Responding to the widening exchange rate gap from Luxembourg on Monday, Jean-Claude Junker - head of the Eurogroup of 13 nations who share the euro as their currency - complained about American...
...years after Rudenstine’s decision, the issue of tenure remains a hot topic among junior faculty. In 2004 then-University President Lawrence H. Summers’ refusal to tenure Marcyliena Morgan—the resident hip-hop scholar of Harvard’s African and African American Studies Department—led to her departure as well as that of her renowned sociologist husband, Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo. After interim President Derek C. Bok approved a tenure offer for Morgan last spring, University President Drew...
Sean Palfrey, the co-master of Adams House, said that the topic was broached at the most recent Masters’ meeting last week and that there was a “hardy consensus” among the masters...
...interviewed him for my thesis, but we quickly got off-topic. “What is a Jew?” he asked...
...Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, which sponsored the event, described the Chinese economy as a “hot topic” in economics. “People who are [economics] students here can go to China and have practical effects,” he said. Zhang added that the topic was also relevant for many undergraduates. Audience member Weiqi Zhang ’10 added, “Everyone’s focusing on China and the Chinese economy, and the two professors are quite famous...