Word: adaptational
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Today's revolution is more vibrantly Islamic than ever. Yet it is also decidedly antijihadist and ambivalent about Islamist political parties. Culturally, it is deeply conservative, but its goal is to adapt to the 21st century. Politically, it rejects secularism and Westernization but craves changes compatible with modern global trends. The soft revolution is more about groping for identity and direction than expressing piety. The new revolutionaries are synthesizing Koranic values with the ways of life spawned by the Internet, satellite television and Facebook. For them, Islam, you might say, is the path to change rather than the goal itself...
...Friends were hard to come by in Zanzibar. I was teaching in a conservative Muslim coastal village, and my neighbors were understandably distrustful of young foreigners. In an effort to adapt and fit in, I started to wear floor-length skirts and multiple shawls and to avoid speaking with my male students outside of class. One day, I passed by a store selling full-body hijabs and thought, “I really want one of those...
...question of whether we could learn anything for the future of mainstream media by looking at the present of adult media. 2. FM: What about the porn industry is interesting to an economist?BGE: This is an industry that consistently manages to adapt innovations before just about any other sector. If you go back to cavemen, these folks were drawing adult materials on the walls of their caves about as early as they were drawing anything else. And so too for early terracotta, early photographs, early film, early recorded home video, DVD. You name it, this industry has it first...
...says that it is guilt, paranoia, or morality while the rest of me sees it as simple stupidity. Consider for a moment music’s present and historic availability. Download as much as you want, go to concerts, and let it be up to the music industry to adapt to this hearkening back to a time before the music’s physical footprint prevailed in our lives. Music has been set free, so go get some. —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...decentralization, according to Director of the Harvard University Library Robert Darnton ‘60. The structure of the current library system, which encompasses 75 separate institutions, a vast array of electronic resources, and multiple preservation labs and archival collections, has made it difficult to effectively coordinate services and adapt to technological innovations. While some branches of the libraries—such as the law, business and medical school libraries—are autonomous entities, other services, such as the Office of Information Services are centralized. Though the system’s organizational structure has been a concern before...