Word: archaicism
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...billion) as the world's second-richest person - and may well topple Gates as Numero Uno by the time next year's list is unveiled. Whereas Gates' wealth reflects America's tech leadership, Slim's riches -despite the sweat and savvy that built them - tend to symbolize Mexico's archaic system of monopolies and oligopolies, which helps keep almost half the nation's population in poverty by choking oxygen away from the rest of the economy. Gates' fortune is part of an engine that creates jobs; Slim's, say critics, is part of an order that sends Mexican migrants across...
...long last the time seems ripe for Harvard to reform its archaic calendar, a change that cannot come a year too soon. The roadblocks that have stood in the way of this change in the past—most notably an ongoing curricular review which is finally coming to a conclusion—are being lifted. There is no longer any reason for delay. Harvard is one of a few universities that drag students back to campus after a brief winter break to write term papers and take exams. It’s a cruel system that denies Harvard students...
Politics is curable. All that is needed is the willpower to stop using archaic ineffective measures and instead embrace the tools of a new strategy: rehabilitation. Harvard’s Institute of Politics is a good start. Hopefully across the country communities will create similar institutions to get the politicians out of our neighborhoods and off our streets...
...Dust” is, it rises up like Shrek at movie’s end: triumphant, bursting with light, but never really changed. Calla’s a band that sounds like Snow Patrol after being mauled by Minus the Bear. Their Dinosaur Rock may occasionally feel tried and archaic, but at least it’s a different beast...
...kids who were utterly delighted when former University President Lawrence H. Summers would autograph their dollar bills beneath his signature as Secretary of the Treasury. Thank goodness Harvard doesn’t work like that, at least not all the time. It remains an academic institution, however inconvenient or archaic that may seem to these “disappointed” few. No institution (particularly an academic one) can endure if it dances to the headlines or follows fads—and those who know Faust and her scholarship are excited about her selection, and hopeful that the coming decades...