Word: disconnected
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...listeners was William C. Quinn ’10, a professed fan of Zinn’s work, who nonetheless did not wholly agree with the historian. “I love Howard Zinn, but sometimes I think there’s a bit of a disconnect,” said Quinn. “You need to have people who are pragmatic in accomplishing the good as well as people who set out the vision in accomplishing what the good...
Several GSD professors saw those comments as a sign of Altshuler’s supposed disconnect with members of his own faculty, who were said to be largely critical of Summers. Some faculty members were also concerned by the fact that Altshuler—though a professor of urban policy and planning—was a political scientist by training and had spent much of his academic career at the Kennedy School of Government...
Martin posits that student isolation from the wider community may be at the heart of the student-activism disconnect...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) celebrated its 40th anniversary with uplifting speeches, panels, and dinners. I can’t help but find it perfectly fitting that the two events transpired simultaneously; the juxtaposition of the celebration and the scandal made brutally clear what has become an increasingly obvious disconnect between the institute’s tone and imagery and the reality of contemporary politics.The IOP was founded as a “living memorial” to President John F. Kennedy ’40. The likeness and the aura of JFK pervade the building: His visage graces everything from...
...might think, from a corporate-coherence perspective, that insurers would coordinate their underwriting and investment strategies. You would be wrong. Traditionally, the underwriting and investment divisions of Big Insurance have been run as autonomous operations. "There's a real disconnect between the investment side and the acknowledgment of climate change," says Matthew Arnold, who tracks the U.S. insurance industry as a director of the consultancy Sustainable Finance...