Word: cosmopolitanism
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Plus, these clunky reggaeton-rockin' menaces don't fit the sleek, cosmopolitan image of today's Panama City, which now has First World aspirations. After several years of unparalleled economic growth and construction, it wants a modern transportation system to fit its sophisticated and worldly ambitions. But getting rid of the second-hand busses has become one of the trickiest parts of Panama City's extreme makeover - and now a central issue in the May 3 presidential elections. "All modern cities have a metro system," said presidential frontrunner Ricardo Martinelli, during a recent speech to the city's top business...
...with its sliding doors and ambient lighting and free-flowing synthehol (booze that doesn't give you a hangover), the Enterprise-D looked like a Qantas Club airport lounge - but somehow I didn't care. TNG wasn't dirty and real like Star Wars or degraded and cyberorganic and cosmopolitan like Blade Runner. This was the other future, the one that wasn't ever actually going to happen, but you wished it would. And it was riveting. Unconstrained by plausibility or topicality, TNG was free to be playful and sexy and self-aware and melodramatic and often just plain dramatic...
...Harvard students in the real world: Not only is it perceived as being the natural—often default—next stop in the lives of the young graduates of elite colleges, but New York’s glossiness also indicates a sort of ultimate achievement of the cosmopolitan refinement and worldliness that Harvard students work so hard to cultivate and realize...
...what we don’t spend money on—saving lives, for example—relates closely to Ronell’s considerations of morals in a potentially meaningless existence and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah’s thoughts on what it means to be a cosmopolitan in an ever-shrinking world. Indeed, part of the success of “Examined Life” comes from the flow and interaction between each of the philosophers’ ideas, even though they never meet face-to-face.Taylor includes known rhetoricians such as West...
EXTREMELY HIGH. The pool of non-Harvard females looking for Mr. Right in the form of a handsome, intelligent Harvard boy is extremely large, especially given the number of colleges in the Boston area. Cosmopolitan BU girls are right across the river, driven Babson females are a short shuttle ride away, and then there’s always Wellesley girls…enough said...