Word: cosmopolitanism
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ADECEPTIVE SIDE of Harvard's much-vaunted cosmopolitan image is its failure to encourage the students who make up the mythic Diversity to speak out for their interests. Even as the guest list for Harvard's upcoming 350th bash is being completed, students have voiced complaints that the organizers failed to invite any minority performance groups such as Ballet Folklorico or the Black Kuumba Singers to the affair. The point is that students of minority backgrounds insist on being appreciated for their differences, not in spite of them...
...young, she is single, and she moved to Manhattan to find success, love and happiness in the big city. You might say she is a cosmopolitan girl, but as it turns out, she is actually the Gentlemen's Quarterly type. This month the GQ editors named Maria Cuomo, 23, one of the 20 most eligible and "unalterably ideal ladies" on either coast of the U.S. "It's great fun," says the New York Governor's daughter, who was delighted to be chosen along with the likes of Singer-Actress Michelle Phillips and MTV Video Jockey Nina Blackwood. Cuomo...
NIGERIAN-BORN AUTHOR Buchi Emecheta welcomed her cosmopolitan sisters to the United Nation's conference on the Decade of Women in Nairobi last spring: "On behalf of mother Africa, 'welkome, dear sisters to the Modar' lan'. Afrika go treat you well, well. Welkome." Her welcome came as a genuine call for solidarity, reconciling differences within the international women's movement...
Then the Brits caught on. As midnight struck on the night when the latest year's wine was officially released, dashing restaurateurs would load up their sports cars and speed back through the darkened French countryside in order to be the first to serve the Nouveau at their cosmopolitan London bistros...
...ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan and enlightened a place as Harvard has no use for an anachronism that has traditionally been the hallmark of those preppy colleges nestled in the idyllic Northeast...