Word: apartness
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...Nkrumah's policies came at a high price. Industrialization cost millions and the government neglected cocoa, Ghana's traditional export crop, which brought in most of the foreign exchange. As Ghana's economy began to fall apart, Nkrumah seemed more interested in pan-Africanism than the minutiae of government. He became isolated, paranoid and dictatorial. In 1964, in a move that would be repeated by other African leaders in the decades to come, Nkrumah declared Ghana a one-party state and himself leader for life. The early optimism was gone, replaced by a deep sense of disappointment and lost opportunity...
...Bolshoi Theater, home of the fabled 231-year-old Bolshoi Ballet Company. From his cozy office in the Bolshoi's labyrinthine headquarters across the square, artistic director Alexei Ratmansky can see the theater site through a window. "The general atmosphere here is of something building - not falling apart," he says, his voice not much louder than the construction noise outside. He's not just talking about new upholstery on the theater's seats. A far more thorough renovation is going on, for Ratmansky is attempting to refurbish not just the Bolshoi's architecture, but its global stature as well. Once...
...bathrooms. Kagan is also praised for the comfortable chairs she put in the library and the coffee she brought to students with early classes. To first- year law school student Jacob K. Jou, it is these “little things” that set her apart as an administrator...
...Cheney's visit comes at a time of growing unease in Tokyo that the U.S. and Japan may be drifting apart - and North Korea is one of the main causes. While Japan under new conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has favored maintaining a hard line against Pyongyang, the U.S. was seen by some here as backing down at the recent Six-Party Talks, which culminated in an agreement that will give North Korea up to 1 million tons in fuel aid in exchange for shutting down its nuclear program...
...director of Homesick, an Iraqi Kurd named Suran Ali Sharif, had in the past staged a more topical, political play in Syria. But as anything recognizable as normal life in Iraq fell apart, and as the ranks of the refugee population in Syria swelled, Sharif decided that serious theater was out of the question. "It's impossible to present these troubles on stage," he said. Iraqis in Syria "are under such psychological pressure, all we can do is try to make people laugh." Still, there is at least one reflection of the new abnormal of Iraq in Homesick: Mahdi...