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...think there will be more establishment figures than people think—a lot of familiar faces,” Castellanos said, adding that it would be a “mistake” if Obama fails to strike a balance between appointing experienced policymakers and academics...
...familiar tale. What Dora wants and needs most is reliable electricity and water. Yet Hamad says not a single government official has shown up in Dora while he has worked here. "Our officials only care about themselves," he said, in the sort of resigned phrase that should depress any U.S. leader. "They are only in power for four years so they make as much money as they can and then plan to flee the country. What we need is a dictator...
...Italian words that are commonly used in spoken and written language. They might not be used every day, perhaps, but they are used by intellectuals, in letters, newspapers and broadcasts. Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates. I do not think that less used words should be deterged from the vocabulary of any spoken language. I think that we have to teach them and use them more. The use of complex words improves thought as well as our philosophical...
Creating an inspired look from scratch with 24 dollars in 24 hours? For fashion veteran Lucy W. Baird ’10, this is a familiar challenge. Both the defending champion from last year’s FM Fast Fashion Challenge, and an active member of The Vestis Council, a Harvard organization for fashion design Baird is old hat at anything involving fabric and scissors...
...their wives, they retreat into passivity or run far, far away into delusion.Tsutsui’s own detached narrative voice allows the reader to laugh at events that would otherwise be overly pathetic or horrifying. The clever blend of science fiction and realism allows Tsutsui to defamiliarize the familiar and highlight certain similarities that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious. The routine parts of life—worries about what the boss will say, or the wife will do, or the men will think—are emphasized even more against the backdrop of absurd calamities?...