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...influence over their content.“They are consulted,” McLoughlin says.SOCIAL SPACE UNCERTAINTY Even on the more level playing field of Council politics, Flores has faltered at times in applying Neustadt’s aphorism. As some UC members grew disillusioned with an inability to elicit responsiveness from administrators on the issue of social space, they opted to organize their own effort to provide said space to undergraduates. The debate on the matter came to a head during a May 3 meeting, during which the Council passed legislation authorizing a capital campaign in a down...
...Still, what Obama has been hoping to elicit from the Saudis and other moderate Arab regimes are some new gestures of outreach to the Israelis, in the hope that these could help persuade Israel to make concessions of its own. It was not immediately clear during Wednesday's talks whether Obama had managed to persuade King Abdullah to offer Israel new inducements towards negotiating a two-state solution...
...site's slogan says it all: "Spreading the Awkwardness." From uncomfortably intimate pregnancy portraits to couples striking bizarre poses, the photos elicit a baffling combination of amusement and unease. Like Postcards From Yo Momma, the site exploits (er, pays tribute to) the embarrassing moments that make us love our family enough to shame them. (See pictures of U.S. Presidents and their children...
...system. But does that mean the stress tests themselves are one big confidence game? Perhaps. The playwright David Mamet said such scams get their name not from the confidence the victim places in the con man, but the trust the con man pretends to place in the victim to elicit trust in return. By that standard, Geithner may be the most effective con man around, for better and for worse...
...Cutié's penalty might elicit more than a few snickers from Catholics who have spent the past few decades watching the priestly perdition parade of sexual abuse, parish embezzlement and doctrinal intolerance. The Archdiocese of Miami has had to pay out millions of dollars in sexual-abuse settlements in recent years - including a case involving a former priest at Cutié's South Beach church, St. Francis de Sales. (One of Cutié's tasks, in fact, has been to heal the wounds at that parish.) To his credit, Favalora is trying to restore public trust in his archdiocese...