Word: beare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. Yes, wrote Rushdie in the Vintage Book of Indian Writing. "The ironic proposition that India's best writing since independence may have been done in the language of the departed imperialists," he said, "is simply too much for some folks to bear...
About once a month, a stream of black sedans with heavily tinted windows snakes through the gates of Zhongnanhai, the sprawling headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party, which occupies the southwestern corner of Beijing's Forbidden City. The limousines bear the 22 members of the party's Political Bureau, or Politburo. In legend, Communist Party meetings are endless, but since 2002, when Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the party (he became President of China the next year), Politburo sessions have been quite brisk. Typically, they are over by lunchtime, and then two top academics are ushered in to brief...
...Dane's grasp of climate science seems shaky at best. The polar bear is far from O.K.: the U.S. Geological Survey reported last month that two-thirds of the population will disappear by 2050 because of shrinking sea ice. But his main argument is still worth considering. Lomborg believes that it would be far too costly to reduce global carbon emissions enough to actually cool the climate. Since warming is coming no matter what we do and poor countries will suffer the most from it, we should instead direct scarce resources to helping those nations adapt to climate change. That...
...although caution is a virtue, complicity is not. If Harvard does not use the power of its purse to alter Chevron’s behavior, it will bear some of the blame for the horrors that are unfolding daily in Burma. On the other hand, if Harvard again catalyzes a divestment movement (as it did with its PetroChina decision in 2005), it will demonstrate that its commitment to human rights extends far beyond the classroom. President Faust says she is “think[ing] of all different kinds of opportunities for teaching and learning in human rights...
...faithful - of all creeds and political affiliations - barraged the White House last week, imploring the President to reconsider his veto threat. Our efforts did not bear fruit. But I wonder if, before he put his veto stamp on that legislation, the President thought back to that little meeting in a Baptist Sunday school classroom, not far from where he grew up. I wonder if he remembered that day, what we talked about, what was in his heart, and how much hope there was in the room. If he knows his Bible, the President should remember that Jesus said to suffer...