Word: akin
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...super computer-literate generation, news becomes a procrastination tool akin to the Facebook, and we lose the personal and contemplative component of reading. The print newspaper at breakfast creates a meditative and undistracted time for the text that allows me to not just suck in information, but also to slow down and formulate ideas about my position and power to change this news. I love seeing The Crimson read at breakfast, but I would also love to see lively debate among friends at lunchtime, national publication in hand, over war strategy or immigration policy...
...strong Venezuelan youth system from which he emerged. Three-quarters of the musicians - aged 12 to 26 - live below the poverty line. He has been their music director since he was 17. When the relationship works, the orchestra feels for its conductor an uncomplicated love, akin to a child's love for a parent, that is the result of endless hours spent scrutinizing and absorbing every nuance of his body, face and soul. It is clear that Dudamel has this unusual power of contact with the orchestra. As the strings finally attack with a ferocity that matches Dudamel's convulsions...
...India is still seriously underperforming. Its systems of justice, public education and health continue to constrain its growth. The half-baked economic reforms of 1991 did give India a boost, but the country had come off such a low base over the previous half-century that the effect was akin to that of an adrenaline shot on a man whose heart has stopped beating. India would enjoy higher and more sustainable growth rates if it reformed its institutions of governance. Unfortunately, India's universally corrupt political leaders display a singular aversion to undertaking reforms, particularly those of the electoral funding...
...places better convey the bittersweet legacy of Indian independence than the eastern city of Calcutta. It was here that Britain began building its dominion in India. The sprawling mansion that today houses the governor of West Bengal - a chiefly symbolic role akin to India's presidency - was, until 1911, the seat of British power throughout all of Asia. "When the house was built, the British Empire in India was like a little patchwork of crimson spots on the map of the Indian continent," then Viceroy Lord Curzon wrote of the significance of his former abode. "When it was abandoned...
...Ferrari, his private theater and the two 32-ft. totem poles just inside the entry. They are made from cedar at least 750 years old and feature carvings of the Davidsons and their three kids, who are now grown. Bob sees his work for the gifted as akin to the patronage that sustained the artists and inventors of the Renaissance. His view of giftedness is expressed through simple analogies: Educators often "want people to have equal results. But that's not likely in our world. You know, I would love to be equal to Michael Jordan in my basketball talents...