Word: glacially
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Because the isles are so remote, change happens at a glacial pace. One day while I was staying with the Simpsons, Lowrie mentioned the long line at the bank. I asked where the bank was, unable to recall having seen it. "Oh, it comes around in a van once a week," he said. The mobile library comes once every three weeks. Most people on the tiny island (pop. 1,000) don't bother with a mailbox. The letter carrier just opens the front door and leaves their mail in a convenient place...
Academic diversity is of utmost importance at an institution designed to expand the way we approach and examine knowledge. The glacial rate of progress in ethnic studies de-legitimizes Harvard’s commitment to diversity, and it is time for Harvard to provide a truly liberal education...
...Since last month, the U.S. has been impatiently following the glacial negotiations meant to secure the surrender of Taliban fighters around Baghran. Rais, who fought hard for the Taliban, said last week he was willing to surrender to the new U.S.-backed Afghan government. What got the U.S. especially interested were intelligence reports that it was Rais who had chaperoned Omar on his escape from Kandahar. Rais denies those reports. On Saturday, Governor Shir told Time that in meetings with U.S. special forces, Rais had "confirmed the absence" from the area of both Omar and Osama bin Laden but agreed...
...says Goodman. “We’ve had several junior faculty searches where we’ve actually hired no one.” She says she is one of the most vocal dissenters to Harvard’s tenure process. But since institutional change is glacial, the best she and her colleagues can do is work within the system to make the process a bit more humane...
...rest day. We were at the village of Janglic on the side of a glacial valley, 3,000 m up in India's western Himalayas. Tibet lay 50 km to the north. The road through the mountains had ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head...