Word: accustomedness
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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch recently stated the obvious when he said the newspaper business model of providing content online for free was "malfunctioning." Poleaxed by a severe ad slump and hemorrhaging red ink, printed newspapers and magazines have been downsizing or closing in some countries, even as their digital editions...
Many other Bosnians are growing accustomed to the resurgent Islamic faith around them. Nearly 15 years after the country's vicious war - in which an estimated 100,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed - its capital, Sarajevo, is experiencing a religious revival. The city's physical scars have mostly healed since...
But when Smith hit his second year, the answers came far less easily. The deanship of the Faculty has become “one of the most unenviable jobs in the world,” says History of Art and Architecture Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger, an outspoken regular at Faculty...
This year's third (!) and most ambitious novel about Dickens is Wanting, by the Australian - or if you like, Tasmanian - writer Richard Flanagan. Wanting begins when Dickens is mourning the death of his ninth child, Dora, and feeling increasingly alienated from his wife and from himself. "They say Christ was...
Sitting in Harvard Stadium for the first time, I was underwhelmed. The Crimson started the day by laying an egg and falling behind Brown, 16-0, in the first quarter. Accustomed to a more solid brand of football, I became slightly disenchanted with my college football prospects. Never one to...