Word: cosmopolitans
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...flag-hanging act which appeared in Thursday's Boston Globe. It strikes me as a sad commentary on our intellectual capacity at Harvard to elevate the level of our students' particularistic identities (e.g. ethnic, racial, national, religious, regional, gender, etc.) from a primitive and one-dimensional level to the cosmopolitan and humanistically sensitive. Here is how a bright senior at Harvard, Bridget Kerrigan, justifies her vicious...
Little Rock can be enjoyable, and people can actually visit a rather sizable stone for which French explorers apparently named the city. The city zoo even holds several hippopotamuses. And there's a nifty Polo outlet store there. But no one goes to Arkansas for cosmopolitan features. (Even if there were...
...Gates' leadership and personality that make others believe the Duke scholar is the best person to build an Afro-Am Department at Harvard. Peers most frequently refer to him as an "entrepreneur," "energetic" and "cosmopolitan...
Matsushita is cautious but forward looking. The company has never had Sony's cosmopolitan polish, yet it was Matsushita's subsidiary JVC that developed the original VHS video technology in 1976. Tanii, then the youthful chief of Matsushita's fledgling VCR division, convinced his superiors that consumers would choose VHS over Sony's Betamax if they could also buy compatible videotaped entertainment...
...name like "Yellow," "Unity" or "Season," of course, one has to learn to deal with a lot of bad jokes. Breen recalls being called Purple in elementary school. Johnson says that her name has often been distorted into "you nutty." And McGill says jokesters have occasionally dubbed her "Cosmopolitan" amd "Ebony...