Word: casuality
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McKean says he will push for a mandatory wage floor that applies to all employees, not just those directly employed by Harvard. The distinctions between directly employed, outsourced and casual employees became a significant source of contention during the sit-in last spring...
...kind of boycott, the starving of Czechs, for example?" asks A. Kevin Reinhart, professor of religion at Dartmouth. "No. We've done some specific things that are perceived as reflecting either an indifference to or a hostility to Muslims." Islamic radicals keep a list of what they consider our casual cruelty, although their definition of who is inflicting the pain sometimes includes all of Christendom. They list the U.S. sanctions against Syria, Libya, Iran and Sudan--all Muslim countries (and all, not coincidentally, considered by the State Department to be sponsors of terrorism). They list the U.S. missile strikes...
...find that healing comes with the desire to be silly again, to take a break from the poignant reflection and introspection and feel comfortable doing what probably won’t add to my overall character but will make me smile. I look forward to the day when my casual perusal of the newsstand won’t always be dictated by the feverish need to know the latest in foreign policy or the threat of war. And perhaps, given recent developments, that day is further off than any of us had originally anticipated, I don’t know...
Last Monday evening, Sven Beckert, an Associate Professor of History at the college, began the first class he was teaching at the extension school with an undeniably casual air. He stood in front of a very crowded Sever classroom and scanned his 7:30 p.m. class with a faint smile, seemingly oblivious to the fact that his dark blue oxford shirt was slightly unbuttoned at the bottom, revealing just a sliver of his white undershirt...
...family on earth. If he hailed from the rebel training camps of Afghanistan, where the cult of jihad gets its earthly gunmen, he would be fundamentalist in his faith, ignorant of the outside world, immersed in a life of religious devotion and guerrilla instruction. He would speak not in casual conversation but in scripture. An intense, carefully nurtured fanaticism would replace any natural instinct for self-preservation...