Word: ashoka
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...Navarasa,” the moods of love, compassion, fury, fear, wonder, disgust, peace, humor, and valor. Instead of focusing on Hindu mythology, the directors have chosen stories and concepts from many different cultures and time periods. Helen Keller, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, child labor, and King Ashoka all make it into the show. Bharatha Natyam as a dance style facilitates storytelling in two ways, through its pure dance elements (“nritta”) and its expressionistic elements (“abhinaya”). “It’s about the range of human emotion...
...dominated northern capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo...
...dominated northern capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo, Sri Lanka Unpersuasive Picture "Abramoff's Kodak moment" [Feb. 20] described a gathering of about two dozen people that included President Bush, Raul Garza - who was a client of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff - and Abramoff himself. The photo of the meeting that Time published shows Bush and Garza...
...years, growing two to three times as quickly in the United States as other industries, William Drayton ’65 told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last Friday. Drayton, a Rhodes Scholar, former Kennedy School professor, and Harvard Law School alum, spoke about Ashoka, an organization he founded in 1980. Ashoka—a social entrepreneurship group—is Drayton’s answer to close “the social and economic gaps between the northern and southern hemispheres, while accelerating the democratic revolution through the citizen sector in developing countries...
...Many of the leaders on this list are not just successful at what they do, but they also have deep social concern and are seeking social change,” Gergen said. Bill Drayton ’65, who first developed the idea for his non-profit organization Ashoka around a dinner table in Lowell House, is one of the social entrepreneurs named on the list. He stressed the importance of this growing field. “It’s not just you and me, but everyone could be a change-maker,” Drayton said...