Word: cosmopolitans
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...Israel, all those contrasts and conflicts were for decades embodied by the Sephardim*- (who flocked to Israel from southern European countries, North Africa and the Middle East) and the Ashkenazim (who came from Central and Eastern Europe). For 30 years the more cosmopolitan Ashkenazim have been at the top of their nation's political, financial and cultural worlds, while most Sephardim have been relegated to a "Second Israel," an underclass accustomed to deprivation and often associated with crime...
...growth and diversification in student enrollments over the past few decades have earned the Harvard Summer School a commanding reputation today as a truly cosmopolitan center of learning during the summer months in Cambridge...
...student body had grown continuously over he decades and become more cosmopolitan, and in the early days of the house system a kind of true identification with the individual houses took place on the part of both faculty and students. Professors became integral members of the houses, dined there, and mixed with the students in a way that after the Second World War, with the enormous expansion of the student body, was never to be repeated in the same intimate manner. For just a few years the system came close to the ideal of an intellectual fellowship that had been...
...wide--Custom Shop sports four bright red chairs and a cozy waiting room in the back. It seems like the typical strictly male barber shop at first glance. But among the last six issues of Sports illustrated on a table in the waiting room are a few issues of Cosmopolitan and Vogue...
...unlikely that the K-School will take a new approach to studying development. "There are no radicals at the Kennedy School," Thomas says. However, according to Broadnax, as the K-School grows, "It becomes more and more likely that it will take on a more cosmopolitan environment as we work towards achieving an optimum mix of foreign students and move those issues confronting developing countries to the front burner...