Word: branch
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...With the recent opening of an International House of Pancakes branch, and Qdoba’s plan to begin selling burritos in the Square this March, chain stores are increasingly entering the Cambridge market. Kramer and a group of other local business owners banded together last year to form a coalition, Cambridge Local First, dedicated to reversing this trend...
Gillis’ proposed student government would include four branches: a College Events Board to organize social events, a Grants Board to handle its fiscal needs, the Undergraduate Council branch to lobby for student reform, and a Student Government Services (SGS) branch to contract out support for matters such as Web site management...
...explains that a student would head up each individual branch, and while the leader of UC branch would still be called “president,” all chiefs would serve under a chairman of the student government. Gillis also proposes that the Grants Board and SGS branches be composed of appointed—but not necessarily elected—students...
...Just after Bush became president, Iranians reelected moderate President Mohammed Khatami, who had reached out to the U.S. and called for a "dialogue of civilizations." Bush not only refused to extend the olive branch cautiously offered by the Clinton Administration, he declared Iran part of an "axis of evil." Khatami left office under fire for the failure of his conciliatory approach, to be replaced by hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who proceeded to promote Iran's nuclear ambitions and call for Israel to be wiped off the map. Despite Bush's tough talk against Iran, the Iraq war has dramatically...
...Pontiff, a trained theologian who spent two decades in the Vatican working on doctrinal matters. The terrestrial exigencies of diplomacy will touch on both geopolitics and inter-religious relations during the four-day visit, as Turkey is both 98% Muslim and the historic home of a competing Eastern branch of Christianity. Everything, of course, will be amplified in the wake of Benedict's now famous September speech about faith and violence that simultaneously angered much of the Islamic world and made the Pope an important new voice in the global debate on the simmering clash of civilizations. Though the word...