Word: vanguards
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Twenty years later, when she was offered the GSAS deanship, she had yet again ventured to the forefront of an administrative crisis as an outspoken critic of former University President Lawrence H. Summers. At the vanguard against Summers’ aggressive leadership style and his remarks concerning women and science, she led the Faculty in passing a docket motion censuring Summers’ conduct...
...relax yet, River City: the guardians of decency are warning about new trouble, with a capital T, which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content...
Some communities are saying no. Framing the debate as one of economics rather than simply social justice can provide political cover for officials to try out innovative alternatives to traditional incarceration. In the vanguard of this movement was the juvenile-justice department of Deschutes County, Ore., which about 10 years ago made a deal with the state: if Deschutes reduced the number of juveniles it sent to state-run detention centers, Oregon would give back to the county the money that it had been spending to incarcerate those Deschutes kids. By giving up 16 out of 26 beds for young...
...Iraq Study Group has been rejected by President Bush. Perhaps most startling, the neoconservative architects of the foreign-policy failures of the past six years still influence the President's thinking. Yet I would not expect Kristol to touch upon any of these points, since he is in the vanguard of the neoconservatives. Steven R. Schels Hamburg, New Jersey...
...days after the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968. "I didn't have more time to live under a dictatorship," he says. As it would turn out, he also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years it has produced new stores for Comme des Garçons in Paris, New York City and Tokyo, tableware...