Word: eclecticism
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The selection of Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono as Time's Persons of the Year for 2005 was applauded by readers who admire the trio's powerful efforts to combat global poverty and disease. Other readers singled out different heroes, those who withstood the year's many challenges of...
Your choice of Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates as Persons of the Year was inspired [Dec. 26, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006]. In a year marked by unusual tragedy, it was heartwarming to read about an unprecedented outpouring of generosity. Your honorees are not only appropriately symbolic of that philanthropy...
If they do, it will be thanks not only to divine intervention but to an extraordinarily wide-ranging effort on the ground. Scattered in some 75 camps throughout Kashmir is an eclectic mix of professional aid workers, foreign volunteers, Islamic extremists and soldiers (Pakistan alone has committed about 40,000...
Though winter hasn’t even officially started, signs of life outdoors are already few and far between in Cambridge. Even animals are hard to find in the Yard.Just outside its gates, however, they’re flourishing. And these aren’t your garden variety birds or...
Perhaps the best thing to come of the failed Wyclef concert is its replacement—“Comedy for a Cause 2005,” a Harvard Concert Commission (HCC)-organized benefit show to aid victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake in South Asia. The event, which will...