Word: theming
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Cornell, President Hunter R. Rawlings proposed forbidding first-year students from living in theme houses such as Ujamma and instead housing the entire class in yet-to-be constructed campus housing...
...Cornell's proposal--which would have allowed students to join theme houses, but not during their first year--met with widespread opposition. Again, evoking the ideas of privacy and self-determination, students were up in arms. A few went on a hunger strike...
...without any single theme for residents to unify around, there is less of a basis for coherent community."You have to have something around which you create this community in the Houses," says Gary J. Schwarzmueller, the executive director of the Association of College and University Housing Officers. "If there isn't a theme, there's less likelihood of people finding something that's common to connect...
...Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" might well be the theme song for Madeleine Albright's Middle East visit. Because like Messrs. Jagger and Richards she's trying to get Israelis and Palestinians to forget about what they want and start focusing on what it is that they need. But with both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak answering to increasingly reluctant constituencies and with both sides having postponed the most intractable aspects of their peace process for the very end, Ms. Albright may well get no satisfaction. "She?s trying to hurry both sides along...
...deft move, the foreign-policy lightweight who failed a pop quiz on global leaders last fall outflanked Gore from the right and the left. The plan plays a new riff on Ronald Reagan's beloved theme of substituting Star Wars for "mutually assured destruction," erecting magical defenses that would eliminate the need for so many dangerous warheads. Bush and his advisers mulled over that concept a year ago in Austin, Texas, then set it aside for the primaries. The topic popped up again during his Sunday phone conferences with Condoleezza Rice and other aides. On May 2, Bush summoned Rice...