Word: inhabitation
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Longshan's residents are not given to complaining, though they inhabit one of the world's most inhospitable corners. Here, in this frozen stretch of wasteland in Heilongjiang province on the Chinese side of Siberia, the scenery is so desolate that its most notable features are heaps of coal piled so high they look like mountains. Many of the townspeople are laid-off coal miners, hopelessly cut off from the fruits of China's heralded economic boom. Still, hardship has taught them not to gripe about their lot in life. "What pleasant weather we're having," says the local bathhouse...
Acting--that must be fun. You get your chance to inhabit a wide range of humanity, from serial killers to detectives who track serial killers. You get your name above the title and your face in Mount Rushmore dimensions on movie screens and billboards. Not to mention the cool accessories: the babes or boy toys, the avid attention the press pays to your every fistfight and drug bust. Acting: it's movie-world glamour...
Kerzner, 67, was ideally placed to make a killing as a financier in Indian gaming. He has succeeded in gaming systems with loose rules before. His native South Africa once banned gambling but allowed it in tribal areas carved out by the apartheid-era white government for blacks to inhabit. Kerzner, who began his career as an accountant, opened the first hotel-casino in 1977 in Mmabatho, the capital of the homeland of Bophuthatswana, about 150 miles from Johannesburg. That year he began planning what would become the opulent Sun City resort-casino-entertainment-theme-park complex. When it opened...
...thinking of his last purely frivolous work, the 1989 Codename Cougar, a goofy skyjack thriller that outfitted his severe star and muse at the time Gong Li in a tight stewardess uniform. If so, Zhang is underestimating both the power of the movie-epic form and his ability to inhabit and revive...
...outsiders. Most of us are personally unaffected by the suffering we describe in our discussions of welfare, public housing and the unemployed, and yet we are still moved to compassion, reflection and sometimes action. If diversity is valuable because it expands our understanding of ourselves and the world we inhabit, then students from low-income backgrounds have as much to offer Harvard as other minority groups. Although the admissions office insists that less-affluent students are vigorously recruited, evidence on the grounds suggests that we could do much better...