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DEFINITION nak-ba n: an Arabic word meaning disaster or catastrophe that Palestinians use as shorthand to refer to the time just before and after the creation of the state of Israel, in which approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees were displaced...
...deputy to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71, O'Brien spearheaded a number of student-life initiatives including the creation of two cafés and a campus pub. Emphasizing the importance of student satisfaction data, O'Brien pushed for changes in areas that students identified as problematic, a strategy that drew criticism from some former College administrators who feared that satisfying students might sometimes be different from educating them. O'Brien and other College administrators were also criticized for what some professors called a growing “corporate” culture inside University Hall...
...witching hour approached, the crowd watching the front door of the Coop grew almost as large as the line leading to it. Artist George Stanley was showing the crowd his creation, an iconographic, Christ-like representation of Harry. As the old religions lose their power, he said, “we need new heroes for a new generation.” An increase in imagination would increase our GDP, he claimed, and lead to evil expunged and good ascendant...
...Supreme Court in August. "The industry will never thrive if we constantly face these threats," says Riza. To be sure, the local industry is small, and produced only 37 films last year. "There is so much competition from foreign films," says producer Paquita Wijaya. "We need to encourage the creation of more quality films, but that won't happen unless we standardize the criteria used for classifying films...
...good news is that we know the way forward. "The best response from the high-wage developed world is to uncover new sources of job creation rather than protect the old ones," says Morgan Stanley's chief economist, Stephen Roach. "That's precisely what worked when farmers were displaced by the Industrial Revolution, when sweatshop workers lost their jobs to automated assembly lines, and when the U.S. Rust Bowl was hollowed out in the early 1980s." Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin agrees, but when he talks about the economic challenges facing the U.S., his tone takes on an edge...