Word: connections
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There’s a formality between junior and senior faculty that she was really able to dissolve,” Fullwiley said. “The only sense I got from her was that she was genuinely there to connect with me and listen. It was a rare experience...
...Some of those arrested in Belgium connect with earlier episodes of al-Qaeda violence. First among them is Malika El Aroud, a 48-year-old Belgian national whose Tunisian husband Abdessater Dahmane was one of two men recruited from Belgian extremist networks to assassinate Afghanistan's key anti-Taliban commander, Ahmed Shah Massoud, two days before 9/11. Since then, blogging under the pseudonym Oum Obeyda, El Aroud has been a fiery advocate for the jihadist cause, urging Muslim men and women to take up the fight...
...question remains—can Flores, a surprisingly shy politician, connect with voters and generate the level of enthusiasm necessary to win the election...
...Socialist political parties; its leaders’ personal relations with presidents (A. Phillip Randolph and Lyndon Johnson had their fair share of meetings); and how the fight for equality was undermined by a vicious cycle of unfair, false perceptions over which black Americans had no control. Sugrue strives to connect the struggles for rights in the North and South. It was Northerners’ success in gaining access to public buildings—such as movie theaters and restaurants—that helped the South start overcoming Jim Crow Laws. The Northern strategy of gathering outside public buildings to which...
...fuzzily sketched out, with side trips that contribute nothing to the storyline except to set the scene for another fight. To cover up this lack of substance, there’s some cheap and flashy editing and a smattering of out-of-place one-liners. Split-second montages connect some scenes, and nearly every other shot in the car flips focus back and forth between Valentina and her Transporter. Contemporary issues that should be addressed more fully (if they need be brought up at all) are tossed in only for the flickers of recognition they draw from the audience...