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...global economic order. It lasted more than 60 years. That it was not well adapted for the new world of globalization has been clear for a long time. Now, as the world emerges from the Cold War and the Great Financial Crisis, it will need to construct a new global economic order for the 21st century, and that will include a new global regulatory agency...
...painted eyes of a thousand commemorated individuals looking down on us from the walls of dining halls, libraries, and common rooms may do more than chronicle the university’s history. “They construct a male Harvard, an important Harvard, an ancient Harvard,” historian and University Professor Laurel T. Ulrich says. “Harvard has done so little to acknowledge its broader history...
...literary criticism Hallmark moment—but it plays into Wood’s theory of fiction.If, as Wood suggests, fiction is a space between mimicry and invention, a “house,” then its creation depends on the writer’s ability to construct a framework in which truth or “lifeness” can occur. With his “Godlike powers of omniscience,” the novelist is able to outwit convention and makes his work approach the truth. The truth can come out in surprising metaphors?...
...also, perhaps unbeknownst to himself, an excellent political theorist. His idea that the small moment encloses the large maps surprisingly well onto the personality pageant that is Election 2008. According to his “grain of sand” model, no incident is too tiny from which to construct an overarching narrative...
...Ending world hunger is a noble pursuit, but results can be difficult to measure unless you have a definite plan,” Grossman said. “Having been a CEO in both the nonprofit and the for-profit world, I think that it is harder to construct good nonprofit organizations than for-profit organizations.”Rangan described two major changes—globalization and a new focus on communities—that were helping make social enterprise more popular.“Business leaders have come to realize the potential of this new, interconnected world...