Word: sectionalism
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...Chief Executive merely serves out the rest of Tung's term to 2007, or whether he gets a new five-year term to 2010. If it's the latter, then the constitutional changes currently being debated to expand the Election Committee so as to include a more representative cross-section of society by 2007 could be delayed or rendered moot. Says Ronny Tong, a pro-democracy legislator: "If this is a play, then it's a very well-planned maneuver...
...parents are likely to meet more people than we’ve met in three years. This could have some serious consequences. Odds are, our parents will meet the parents of at least one of the following: 1) someone we drunkenly hooked up with; 2) that annoying kid in section; or, worst of all, 3) a member of the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. So close yet so far, thank god. Just hope both of you don’t collect your ‘rents at the same time...
...particular, Adjah said students were offended by Section 18 of the causes page, which reads: “18. Demand that the war on grade inflation is halted and reparations are paid to the student body...
Adjah wrote in an e-mail that this section referenced both the remarks of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, which linked grade inflation at Harvard in part to an increase in minority recruiting, and to reparation payments made to freed African-Americans after the Civil War, and was implicitly racist...
...could say that Wiener’s book is flawed from page one, but that would be inaccurate. Rather, the flaws start on page viii, in the prefatory “acknowledgments” section, in which the author writes that he is “indebted” to Thernstrom—among others—for agreeing to be interviewed...