Word: impaction
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...unlike in high school where GPA, SATs, and leadership titles seemed to be the name of the game, the rules for “doing well” at Harvard weren’t scripted, leaving me to wonder: Was it based on your grades, the kind of impact you had in your activities, the number of Facebook friends you had, or maybe the amount of time you could spend playing XBox while still acing Expos? Whatever the measure was, I felt humbled by the group of talented, ambitious students around me. “Doing well?...
...making Harvard’s collection increasingly accessible and usable. The ongoing project of digitization will be the most visisble project of Darnton’s tenure, but less prominent issues such as dealing with budget and space constraints and facilitating online course-packs will have a similarly important impact on Harvard’s students and scholars...
...Palestinians, the impact of 1967 was different and profound. It took the war to define a Palestinian identity. A people torn away from the Jordanians and Egyptians, under whose suzerainty they had been living, the Palestinians forged nationalism out of anger and searing loss. And gradually the vocabulary of the Palestinians' struggle changed. Today Palestinians speak less of a battle against the Israelis for land and rights than of something vaguer and more dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book...
...convince people that you are not a single-issue candidate? -Sarah Podenski, Plymouth, Minn.When people accuse me of that, I always say, well, at least I have one. Secondly, the issue itself includes so many parts. It's got a health care component. And and education component, considering the impact of illegal immigation on our school system. It's got a prison component-27% of our federal prison population are criminal aliens. There are environmental issues that nobody wants to talk about but that I think are very significant. And also the culture itself. Right now we are balkanizing America...
...details of nearly every operation on the ground. By the time they approach re-enlistment, most captains have about eight years in uniform and are the most experienced officers who still work directly with new recruits. "If you start losing company-grade officers, that has a long-term, deleterious impact," said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who is himself a former Army captain...