Word: humanity
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...been successful in putting these issues on the table for international discussion, and in eliciting governments' pledges to change their own policies. Would the issues of poverty, environmental degradation, human rights, public health and disarmament be better addressed through bilateral mechanisms, or by countries on their own? No, they would...
These problems involve the management of public goods and everyone benefits from a successful resolution. Unfortunately, few are willing to bear the cost of resolving the problems. Countries will not undertake the necessary reforms to mitigate global warming, curb population growth, implement legal frameworks that protect human rights or invest in universal vaccination programs to halt the spread of disease because the individual country would bear the cost of the reform without exclusively benefiting from the outcome...
...ballooned to over $14 billion, while the Capital Campaign has exceeded its $2.1 billion goal by $225 million and while University President Neil L. Rudenstine has informed every Crimson reader that Harvard has achieved "a goal greater than any other institution of higher learning in the history of the human race," the University continues to pay an estimated 2,000 workers poverty wages...
...Boston Ballet, however, Firebird becomes much more than a story-ballet. It is the combination of an award-winning, inventive choreographer and fantastic dancers, who, having mastered the athleticism of ballet, are accomplished artists capable of expressing the human emotion and sensitivity behind Wheeldon's choreography, able to relate to the audience and imbue the piece with relevance...
...ballet opens with a scrim, a semi-opaque curtain at the front of the stage that blurs the action behind it, cementing the ballet in the human subconscious that lets the viewer experience and personalize art. The characters are endearing, fictitious, yet and somehow logical, carefully developed through choreography. The Firebird herself, given frantic, bird-like steps, seems supernatural, wrought with the frustration of being the sole guardian of good in a realm deprived of it. The princesses dance barefoot, as if to accentuate their delicacy and femininity in a dismal bleak world, and also their child-like helplessness...