Word: trended
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president of the Harvard Secular Society, said she approved of this apparent trend...
...college Republicans replied that the influence of religion was decreasing, seven out of eight of whom said that this was a “bad thing.” Over half of college Democrats, in direct contrast, said religious influence was increasing, two thirds of whom answered that this trend was negative...
...ongoing genocide in the western region of Darfur. Since then, other universities and even states have pulled their funds from companies tied to Sudan. Although Cambridge city councillors said there are currently no formal plans for the city to follow Providence’s lead and begin a national trend of city divestment, at least one councillor expressed interest in looking into the possibility. Cambridge holds stock through its pension fund, but city officials said they could not yet determine whether any part of that fund is invested directly or indirectly in companies tied to Sudan. And Harvard students campaigning...
...that U.S. pressure on them to do more to accommodate the Sunnis further emboldens those insurgents. And the failure of Coalition and Iraqi security forces to protect Shi'ite communities from terror attacks leads many Shi'ites to see the militias as their only protection. If anything, the worsening trend of sectarian violence during the months that the politicians have wrangled over a new government has only hardened each constituency's conviction about the necessity of the militias. It's a vicious cycle, and one that no Iraqi prime minister, whether the U.S. likes him or not, will easily overcome...
...Paloma A. Zepeda ’06 also posited a broader definition of feminism in her discussion on what she termed “feminist misdirection.” Zepeda, author of the conservative blog Bikini Politics, spoke of her concern for equality in education. There is a disturbing trend in the tendency of men to drop out of high school—and fail to complete college—at higher rates than women, she said. Zepeda’s talk called for a brand of feminism that would rise above the current “politically correct perversion?...