Word: doneness
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...this is the World Series we deserve, if not the one we want. Both Philadelphia and Tampa have done their time enduring bad teams and worse luck. But for the rest of the country, idly wondering where the Yankees are, there's a lesson to be had. If Tampa Bay can survive the indignity of changing its name from the Devil Rays to exorcise the stink of failure, and Philadelphia can bounce back from the shame of losing the 1993 World Series to Canadians, there's promise for our subprime nation. Rooting for these teams represents the triumph of hope...
...rite, one of seven Catholic sacraments, demands a priest as an avenue to God and to absolution. Still, the sites flourish. In August, after Jack had worked things out with his wife, she was worried about her ill grandfather and took a trip out of state, something she had done numerous times in the past. "Before it was like, yeah, I missed her, but it was also nice to have a guys' week," Jack says. "This time, it was drastically different. It hurt. It was really bad." Which, he knows, is really good...
...historically, the Harvard Arts Museum’s largest ever donation. The $45 million will go towards the costs of renovating the Fogg Art Museum while the art, mostly twentieth century, will give Harvard’s curator another 31 pieces to display once the renovations are done...
...Some of the most innovative work in the world right now is being done on the interface of ecology and economic policy, between the distribution and abundance of life and the distribution and abundance of goods and services. The overarching theme is that saving the environment is a frontier of the imagination, and can synthesize the best of our thoughts on organization of the natural and social worlds...
...developed world, much of this work is done in the spirit of “green development,” or use of the de-carbonization movement to propel growth rather than impede it. That movement in and of itself is incredibly unique, as environmental communities in high-income countries have generally been divorced from the rest of the polity. Phil Angelides, director of the Apollo Alliance, an American energy independence project, believes that a global transition to a low-carbon economy would create jobs and over time become the primary engine of development. Angelides notes that between...