Word: insightful
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...Involvement in Learning). The idea is simple: get corporate and civic leaders involved with the city's public schools. This year's participants ranged from First Principal Hillary Clinton to actor Billy Baldwin. The program is part p.r., part guilt alleviation for well-heeled New Yorkers and part real insight into the New York City school system, which is the nation's largest, with 1,136 schools, more than a million students, 63,000 teachers and an annual budget bigger than the combined military spending of nato's three newest members: $8.9 billion...
With each new tidbit learned in the days after the shooting, the opportunistic pundits have played their hands to maximum advantage, trying to offer the most insightful explanation for the events in Colorado. When it was revealed that the killers listened to the music of Marilyn Manson and played the game Doom, the pundits argued that Goth rock music and graphic video games ought to be restricted because they insight violence. Psychologists have taken to the airwaves to talk about the effect of TV violence on youth...
With poems of unparalleled clarity and insight, Mary Oliver captures the startlingly simple elegance of the natural world. In House of Light and other volumes of verse, she harnesses transient impressions of the outdoors and then questions our relationship with nature and with ourselves. Recognizing the tension between human morality and the amorality of nature itself, Oliver suggests that her readers reconsider their perceptions of the defining differences between humans and birds and blades of grass and even the inanimate objects that fill our world. But even as she has, in over 35 years of writing, explored questions of personal...
...structural mass and energy consumption could be made by shifting the utilities underground, leaving a floating roof and walls that could open to natural daylight. This changed architects' thinking about airport design worldwide, and every major airport built since--Hamburg, Stuttgart, Kuala Lumpur--has followed Foster's design insight...
...Diana is back as the heroine of a stage musical--and no one cares! To be sure, the unheralded off-Broadway show Queen of Hearts is too scrappy and simplistic to be very satisfying, even to connoisseurs of kitsch. Its Diana is an unnuanced saint whose key moment of insight comes when Princess Grace advises her, "Trust in yourself. Be who you are." Yet the musical boasts an appealing Diana in Paula Leggett Chase, who has the hairstyle and the gangly grace and (in songs like The Walls Are Closing In) makes a decent case for her emotional strength...