Word: vacuums
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...presented itself once every three decades. Our chance to restructure the curriculum comes once every 30 years regardless of who the president is, regardless of who the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science is, and regardless of which bodies of the University are cooperating. No power vacuum, no matter how large, need stall the reforms of this curricular review (already three years in the making), and with support from deans and faculty—and the support of undergraduates—we can renew reform without pause.At this point, the review’s first priority should...
...Larijani: We have to see what the problem is, in order to design a compatible foreign policy for that. Diplomacy does not grow in vacuum. We are not rigid in our policy. What is there to make us change our foreign policy...
...violence in Iraq is not so much religious dispute as it is a very secular competition for power and prominence in the new Iraq. Iraq is not all that different from Northern Ireland or Bosnia, where religion paraded as ethnicity and became a vehicle for communal rivalries. In the vacuum of power left by the fall of Saddam Hussein, the game of numbers has favored Shi'as, who are 60% of the population. It is for this reason that they wholeheartedly embraced democracy. Disgruntled Sunnis, on the other hand, vested their fortunes in boycott and violence, hoping that as spoilers...
...must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist a Category 5 storm. (Katrina was at most a Category 4 when it hit land.) "We have got to feel confident the city is safe from floods, or businesses won't return," says Tom Oreck, head of a New Orleans vacuum-manufacturing company and a member of the Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region...
...Justice Department has a message for Congress: clean up your house or else we may have to do it for you. A senior federal law enforcement official told TIME that the paralyzed and often lax House ethics committee has created a vacuum that prosecutors won't hesitate to fill. The House?s internal mechanism for keeping corruption in check is "broken," says the official...