Word: deepening
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What meritocracy misses are the ways Harvard and so many other schools deepen social inequalities. Professional administrators, faculty, and members of economic, political and cultural elites—not the whole school and surrounding community—make the vast majority of the school’s decisions. Routinely putting decisions in the hands of a few simultaneously consolidates the power, skills, knowledge, connections, wealth, and entitlement of a few individuals and at the same time takes that power away from most. The less most people are directly involved in the decisions that affect their lives, the less interested they...
...struggle to return, he died, possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal pardon he sought for years was finally granted, he did not live to learn the news. All through that complicated exile, while circling among Naples, Malta and Sicily, Caravaggio managed to sustain and even deepen his intuitions about light, shadow and pictorial drama. The evidence is in every room of "Caravaggio: The Final Years," a show that runs at the National Gallery in London through May 22. Previously presented in Naples, the exhibit is small; it lacks a few of the most important late paintings...
...demand for clerical rule. But for the former Baathists, the strategic logic may be that keeping Sunnis out of the process would deny the new government legitimacy. Democracy in Iraq will strip the Sunni minority of its traditional elite status, and the insurgents may hope to further deepen their alienation from the new order so that they continue to serve as a social base for a long-term insurgency. Also, an election that brings the Shiites, many of whose leading parties are traditionally close to Iran, to power may also suit their agenda, because it will leave much...
...Japan, as far as I know, those who view China as an enemy are also in the minority. Nationalism in either country is not a threat to the Sino-Japanese relationship. The people of Japan and China must not be misguided by the media and should continue to deepen their understanding of one another. Norihisa Kodama Beijing...
Evans and BPD are far from seeing eye to eye with the College with regards to alcohol policy, and the division will surely deepen with time. Without question, the College’s main priority is student safety, and taking the most pragmatic, sensible (and legal) steps it can to ensure that safety. On the other hand, Evans has made clear his priorities are to crack down on underage drinking. Unfortunately, these dual priorities do not always line up. If Harvard and BPD do not reach a consensus on the right approach, Harvard’s future in Allston will...