Word: foremost
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...world’s foremost Irish scholars, he specialized in modern Irish literature and the history of the early Irish annals, a project the fluent Irish speaker once said would take him “25 lifetimes” to complete...
...without the University. That range of perceptions reflects the ways in which Harvard has changed over the past few decades, moving away from its roots as a college serving the elites of New England towards its new role as the undergraduate portion of the world’s foremost research university. Doubtless, the shift will continue, and will probably accelerate—but administrators, alumni and students alike should recognize that Harvard abandons its past at its peril...
...method is understatement, indirection, irony. "In England, we never entirely mean what we say, do we?" a Bennett character declares in the 1977 play The Old Country. "Do I mean that? Not entirely." Yet an argument can be made (though never, never by Bennett himself) that he is the foremost English playwright. Certainly the most English playwright, if by that we mean the dramatist who alchemizes the manners and rancor of the quiet middle class into delicious and troubling comedy. He's been at it since 1960, when, at 26, he and three other Oxbridge wits wrote and performed...
...living on less than $1 a day in sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled since 1981. The scale of the disparity is larger than most Americans can comprehend, and it will only widen if leaders do not take dramatic action. As one of the world’s foremost academic institutions, Harvard is uniquely poised to identify and train leaders with the capacity to effect this kind of change. The CID plays a pivotal role in this process; shutting it down would be detrimental not only to the Harvard community, but also to the larger world of sustainable development...
...outlined by President Bush depends, at the first hurdle, on being able to satisfy both UN Security Council member states, and the Iraqis themselves, that the U.S. intends to begin a genuine ceding of control over events in Iraq on June 30. That question will be answered, first and foremost, in the relationship between a new Iraqi political authority and the U.S. armies that remain on its turf. Right now, that relationship remains to be defined. And each potential answer to the question carries its own substantial package of risks...