Word: topicalism
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...applaud Summers for bringing up the topic of student social life and for soliciting the opinions of students on a specific, innovative proposal before making any major decisions. The Houses as academic and social communities leaves a good deal of room for improvement, but pre-assigning first-years is not the answer...
Although the White House has continued to insist that the timing of the Iraq vote in Congress has nothing to do with an upcoming and excruciatingly close election, war has become Bush's favorite topic as he stumps the country in a record-setting fund-raising effort for Republican candidates. He has taunted Democrats who argue for waiting until after the U.N. acts to pass a resolution authorizing force: "If I were running for office, I'm not sure how I'd explain to the American people--say, vote for me, and, oh, by the way, on a matter...
...Gore for President as early as 1988, suggesting it was born of bitterness. Every pundit in the country also held up the speech to the light of 2004 and tried to divine whether Gore's words were just the opening salvo of a campaign to make Bush foreign policy Topic A. They got no help from Gore: when he came onstage the following day at a rally for Democratic candidates in Santa Fe, N.M., he was greeted by hand-lettered placards congratulating him and chants of "Say no to war!" But Gore never directly mentioned Iraq in his comments, offering...
Moriarty added that the topic of limiting network bandwidth did arise at a recent meeting of the Network Advisory Group, which consists of network personnel from each of Harvard’s component schools...
...topic is scheduled to be revisited at a meeting of the University Technology Architecture Group on Oct. 18. This group makes policy recommendations to the University as a whole, but each school ultimately decides how it will proceed...