Word: home-grown
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...Western culture at large. Sennott agreed that cultural differences are a motivating factor for terrorists, but said that especially on an individual level, Muslims are more likely to engage in dialogue with the Western world if both parties are similarly religious. Sennott said his theory about the lack of home-grown terrorists in America is still a work in progress. “I don’t know how I feel about it,” he said. He will continue to explore these ideas during his time as a Nieman Fellow, a mid-career hiatus to Harvard during...
...foreigner who grew up without a television, one of Daver's biggest challenges was becoming fluent in U.S. culture and customs. So, to better relate to Americans, she spent countless hours watching re-runs of home-grown TV classics like "Leave It To Beaver," "Dallas," "Starsky and Hutch," "The Brady Bunch," and "Mash." From those shows, she learned about American language, slang, humor, and other pop-cultural references that she herself made use of to help break the ice and shoot the breeze with others in the dorms, and later, in corporate cafeterias...
Thursday, Oct. 13—Saturday, Oct. 15. Long Shot: A Playwright’s Festival. Harvard’s own home-grown writing talents debut never-before-seen pieces, including a musical. 2:30 p.m. (Saturday) and 7:30 p.m. Loeb Ex. Free. Tickets available only at the Loeb Drama Center Box Office, 64 Brattle...
...times of terrorism, we need to be alert to the fact that our fear of an unfamiliar terrorist may persist longer than our fear of an equally lethal home-grown one such as a Timothy McVeigh,” she wrote...
...Just as home-grown chefs are gaining favor, so domestic place names provide the new exotica on menus. Banished are the evocative references to such shrines as Burgundy, Provence and Lyons. Instead, the places dropped are likely to be El Paso, Iowa, Michigan, Memphis, Albuquerque, the Arizona Badlands and even the Bronx, where small farms and greenhouses supply endive and herbs to tony Manhattan restaurants and markets...