Word: aspects
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Glazer said that Nelson’s greatest challenge may not be long-term physical planning in Allston, but rather building student community—an aspect of the Harvard undergraduate experience that Glazer and others say needs improvement...
...pilgrims and Sunnis remained united in one important aspect: they both blamed the tragedy on the Shi'ite-dominated government, which had failed to anticipate the number of pilgrims before the stampede, and made a hash of relief efforts afterward. Especially angry were Baghdad's Shi'ites; in Sadr City, mass funerals quickly turned into anti-government demonstrations. Dismissing Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's announcement of a three-day mourning period for the victims as mere eyewash, many called for his resignation and for that of his ministers for defense and the interior...
Then there's the commercial aspect. The rise in creative holiday celebrations coincides with the coming of age of the events-planning industry. "Twenty years ago, events planning was in its infancy. Today you can get a college degree in it," says Howard Givner, president of Paint the Town Red, an event-planning company in New York City. Add to that the multitude of sophisticated consumers who put a premium on their time. "It's worth it to many boomers to pay someone else to do the work," says Givner. "In the end, a turkey's a turkey. Who cares...
...city. Wal-Mart was looking for someone who could lay down a solid foundation, both on site and in the surrounding West Side community of Austin, where high unemployment and high retail prices prevail and the labor supply, while plentiful, has a few dents in it. "The community aspect is not something Wal-Mart has typically had to deal with," says Garner. "Coming to a city and having to deal with ex-offenders, for instance. These aren't the sorts of problems that Wal-Mart typically deals with. They were looking to defer the risk...
...Fairweather adrift. While a 1994 retrospective installed the painter in the pantheon of Australian Modernism, "I actually believe this in a way undersells his achievements," says Stevenson, a graduate of Auckland's Elam School. "The story of his life seems somewhere between Gauguin and the hippy movement, and this aspect of his practice is also important and fascinating." Through his research, Stevenson began to see himself in Fairweather. The latter lived his last two decades as a virtual recluse on Queensland's Bribie Island, and the New Zealander, who moved to Berlin in 2002, recognized in Fairweather some...