Word: weak
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...that the UC doesn’t broadly represent anything at all. Currently, it is the preserve of a particular class of student: those who enjoy politics for the sake of practice, marathon meetings with small stakes, and the power to give or take away grant money. And the weak turnout seen in countless UC representative elections clearly demonstrates that this tiny community of people has seized the mantle of authority over the direction of student life at Harvard without any real mandate. Still more galling, it has made a figurehead of itself, making it seem that the voice...
...base, as well as diminished patron support,” leading to subsequent productions of “The Mikado” and “The Pirates of Penzance” that were respectively, as he puts it, “embarrassing” and “weak.”“At that point, the group was nearly broke and at an artistic nadir,” Marshall writes. “The word was that the Board would cut back to only one show a year. I put together a ‘shadow...
...bridge program," says Kline. "If we have an American Pediatric AIDS Corps on the ground ten years from now, we haven't done our jobs." Nobody knows better than these doctors themselves that they are only a band-aid, a temporary solution to the more insidious problem of the weak health care system in Africa. The U.S. doctors are charged with treating children urgently in need of ARV care, while at the same time training and teaching local doctors and nurses how to adjust doses and understand symptoms of AIDS in the disease's youngest patients. It hasn't been...
...subservience to no one but their god. Unless all these women are self-denying liars manipulated by radical males, shouldn't their interpretation of headscarf symbolism be regarded as at least as legitimate as hijab and niqab opponents? The problem with symbols is they are exactly as potent or weak as the passion invested in them - and both sides of this debate see some powerful symbolism in headscarves...
...whose arguments on Common Article III of the Geneva Convention were ultimately adopted by the Court. Katyal said that Tribe and Meltzer helped him practice before the actual oral arguments. After one session in which Tribe told him that his case was strong substantively but his performance a bit weak, Katyal hired a former “Cheers” actor for stage training. “The guy came in and said, ‘Practice your oral argument in front of me, but do it holding my hand,’” Katyal recalled to loud...