Word: culturese
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This represents a sad outcome for a territory that had within it the potential to become something extraordinary within the last major state ruled by a Communist Party. Both Beijing and the SAR could have benefited from a true interchange of economies, cultures and societies. Instead, David has quailed before...
“If multiculturalism says all cultures are equal, that idea took a heavy blow when the World Trade towers came down,” Mansfield says.
“It seems to me the lessons of 9/11 are that Harvard is an international university and we need to focus on the cultures of the rest of the world,” says Pippa Norris, a lecturer on government.
With three turntables and a mixer, /rupture communicates through layered grooves. An ideal selector who skirts boundaries rather than being confined within them, he builds bridges between musical cultures as only a good DJ can, articulating forgotten connections while suggesting unforeseen ones. Beats from Kingston to Brooklyn engage with seminal...
Other winners this year, ranging in age from 29 to 60, include a seismologist who works to prevent natural disasters in third-world countries, a glass bead artist, and an anthropologist who uses fossilized plants to understand ancient cultures.