Word: coexisting
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Beliefs that Harvard students are both bright and dumb cannot coexist in any sort of coherent policy. Either we are the mature and intelligent creatures of our deans’ fawning tributes, or we are so inept that proctors and deans need to hold our hands. But the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) has not clearly chosen a side...
...which 558 U.S. troops have died along with 101 other foreign soldiers and an estimated 10,000 Iraqi civilians. Americans have mostly watched the saga unfold from afar, but for Iraqis the car bombs, shootings and roadblocks have become part of daily life, a regimen in which new opportunities coexist with the most terrifying of dangers...
...change. We found that the country has indeed moved forward but that this progress has been matched by a corresponding rise in anxiety. The transition in the coming months, as the U.S. hands power to Iraqis and the nation's ethnic and religious groups try to find ways to coexist peacefully, will determine whether the country can become, at one extreme, a model for democracy in the region or, at the other, an unstable haven for terrorist organizations...
...Iraq that still has a curfew. Tension persists between the Kurds on one side and Arabs and Turkomans on the other. Many Kurds say they don't want full independence but insist on a great deal of autonomy, which the new interim constitution affords them. But the rival groups coexist warily. Saddam had expelled many Kurds from Kirkuk in his attempt to Arabicize the city. Now they're coming back to try to reclaim their homes. Haider Mohammed, 20, an Arab who studies at a local technical college, says Kurds in his neighborhood are pressuring Arabs to sell their houses...
Desperation and luxury are mortal enemies. Fear and power do not peacefully coexist. It follows, then, that she who wishes to reach the most rarefied and potent ranks of fashion, whether in dealmaking or designing, must have a certain serenity. A certain above-the-fray quality. And a flat-out disregard for what you think. Which brings us to Miuccia Prada. The rise of Mrs. Prada, as she is known to her Italian staff members, is a well-known tale--your basic story of a onetime communist and mime student from Milan who takes over her family's dusty luggage...