Word: insularity
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...roots of this rage can be found in place and time. The city's Sutherland Shire, where the troubles first occurred, is a close cousin of the O.C., 4,000 miles across the Pacific. The ?shire?, predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon, and insular, is unlike the rest of Sydney, which has for 60 years peacefully absorbed waves of immigrants from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Each summer, the shire's surf beaches attract hordes of visitors from the immigrant, working-class suburbs of southwestern Sydney. Not all visitors are welcome. Some behave very badly. Policing has been...
While King’s views on issues that fall under the Corporation’s jurisdiction are largely not known, her résumé suggests that her appointment will positively impact the Corporation by introducing new perspectives into a board that is insular by design. We trust King is up to the challenge, and welcome her back to Harvard with great excitement and high hopes...
Whatever shifts may be taking place within the inner circle, the Bush operation remains frustratingly insular to its Republican allies outside the White House. When Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter wanted to have a private word with the President last week about the extension of the Patriot Act, he put on a tuxedo and waited in line at one of the White House Christmas parties. But Specter denies any suggestion that Bush has been distant and says the President remains confident and sunny, needling Specter about his raggedy trench coat during a trip to Pennsylvania: "Arlen, we're going...
...construction schedule, possibly a new 24-hour café in Lamont Library. These improvements seem to offer more than enough conveniently located social space for freshmen. And, furthermore, these are spaces that promise to encourage freshmen-upperclassmen interaction—a priority of the College—not insular freshmen socializing. Proponents of the plan to gut the basements argue that freshmen dorms should have the same amenities as the Houses: kitchens and large common rooms, for instance. But while these improvements would be nice, marginal progress toward making freshmen dorms more like Houses cannot justify the eviction...
...present, the HCC is an insular and self-preserving arm of the UC. The outgoing Chairman picks his or her successor upon vacating the office. Unimpressively, the most recent watershed reform to the HCC was the election of commission members by the UC. Under this system, no member of the HCC is even marginally accountable to the student body in any meaningful...