Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...denouement was accelerated by inspired diplomacy that paired the sympathetic Russian Chernomyrdin with the neutral Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari. Chernomyrdin had had no luck penetrating the complex, impulsive, stubborn character of the Serbian leader. But he concluded that you could, eventually, do a deal with Milosevic if you could help him save face. Early in May, at breakfast with Vice President Al Gore and Albright, Chernomyrdin suggested he needed a negotiating partner with stature in Europe but no connections to NATO. "If I have someone from the West with me, I have a better chance of getting this done...
...scale of operations needed to run auniversity, the information revolution, thegrowing demand for educational programs formid-career professionals and brand new fields ofinquiry in complex, interdisciplinary topics alllook to change higher education in ways that couldmake it virtually unrecognizable to scholarstoday...
...idea has become "the plan to beat" in the secretive horse-race to develop one of the last large swaths of available land in Harvard's Cambridge home. In a twist, the contents of the Sackler Gallery could move to a second building on the site--creating a museum complex to rival HUAM's current Quincy Street...
What is flawed in these statements is the assumption that how Harvard impacts you is how it will impacts others. A more complex synthesis would be individually-tailored, recognizing that the same structures can have different effects based on the individual talents and capacities that each person brings to bear...
...placid Vermont college is getting anonymous hate notes. The college responds, predictably, with race-sensitivity forums. Rebecca Gilman's new play, having its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, could have been an easy diatribe against racism and the perils of political correctness. Instead, it's a complex, unnerving look at the way real people navigate between them both. Mary Beth Fisher gives a penetrating performance as the dean whose life is unraveled by the case. Gilman sets the play entirely in the dean's office yet creates a more convincing world offstage than most playwrights these days...