Word: centricity
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...losing, McBride may have scored one victory over Jeb. After conceding the election , he insisted that his education-centric campaign had at least "moved [Florida's] agenda to the right place" - and he seemed to be borne out as a ballot initiative mandating limits on Florida school class sizes, a measure Jeb opposed as too expensive, seemed headed toward a narrow victory...
...been willing to adapt its curriculum over time and, to popular acclaim, recently added the Koran to reflect the increasingly multicultural society in which the institution found itself. And, lest anyone decry the Columbia system as close-minded, it should be noted that, in addition to the Euro-centric humanities requirements, students there must take two semesters of classes that examine non-Western cultures to a far greater depth than Harvard’s Foreign Cultures Core requirement mandates...
When he was a junior, Clayton started an audiovisual collective named Toneburst with like-minded friends from Harvard and the Massachusetts College of Art. Though it has since fallen into abeyance, Toneburst set a precedent for leftfield electronics in Boston’s house and techno-centric club scene. The group hosted DJ and live performances that culminated in a self-produced disc of excursions into hip-hop, jungle...
Well, not the whole thing, at least. Since Bronfman took the helm from his father Edgar Sr. in 1994 and uncorked a new, media-centric strategy, the family's holdings in Seagram, and now Vivendi, have lost 75% of their value and are currently around $1 billion. Seeking high-growth businesses, Bronfman ultimately jettisoned the famous spirits business, an unpopular move with part of the family. "From the beginning of this escapade, [Bronfman's uncle] Charles has been dead set against [it]," says a Bronfman-family insider. And to finance his $5.7 billion purchase of movie studio MCA/Universal...
...face that reality dealt when that bubble finally burst. We were both the beneficiaries and the victims of the technology economy at the turn of the millennium. And despite the condition of our job searches this year, we’ve lived perhaps the most connected and technology-centric lives in the history of Harvard, and it’s been largely to our benefit...