Word: glacial
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...psyche, a concerted attempt at minority enfranchisement within the Harvard Faculty gained steam. Ineffectual government was also on the forefront of student thought, as students became disillusioned by the newly-created Student Assembly as well as the tepid politics of the Democratic Party. That Harvard seems prone to a glacial pace of change is manifested in an excerpt on the creation of a new Literature concentration. And lastly, Harvard’s efforts at land development yielded controversy at the Sumner Road apartments, a story that bears no small similarity to the recent dispute over the Charlesview apartments in Allston...
...Ceylan film, Climates, is a typical choice, and a bit better than that, for an art-film festival. It moves at a glacial pace - actually, we can't use that metaphor any more, after what we learn about melting icecaps from the Gore movie, but this is a film that takes its time - with a camera that rarely moves and characters who for long stretches are wrapped mutely in isolated misery against stunning landscapes...
...even those success stories can be troubling. Natural ecosystems evolved at a glacial pace, over millenniums. And while human-induced change may help some species thrive, it can also throw off the balance that keeps an ecosystem healthy--as some hungry Dutch hatchlings have discovered...
...held, control of the case will stay with the Special Court, which Washington sees as a model for future war crimes courts and a welcome alternative to the permanent ICC. Compared to the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which are often criticized for the glacial pace of their prosecutions, "the court in Freetown is progressing faster, for less money and in a more focused way," says Mike McGovern, West Africa project director for the Brussels-based research and lobby group International Crisis Group. "The perception is that they're harder-working." With Taylor...
...another about whether the grim forecasts were true, but in the past five years or so, the serious debate has quietly ended. Global warming, even most skeptics have concluded, is the real deal, and human activity has been causing it. If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem...