Word: insularity
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...membership does represent their alignment with an exclusionary club. Harvard, as an institution run by people belonging to that club, suffers by association. To counter the shadow cast on our University those members should publicly reaffirm their commitment to diversity and openness, particularly within institutions that have traditionally been insular clubs for the elite...
...York rally included a broad mix of groups—from Ivy-League college students to organized labor, the anarchist Black Bloc to the American-flag-toting Veterans for Peace. We are glad to see Harvard students active in this new movement, leaving their insular campus to declare their opposition to war. As students in positions of extreme privilege, we should not retreat to an ivory tower but stay vocal and involved in the broader political world—if not through our government, then in the streets...
...high school kid in America who cares that Led Zeppelin was British. Pink Floyd, as far as anyone here is concerned, come from outer space." The actual reasons for slumping British sales are a lot more complex: consolidation of record labels and radio stations, a stubbornly insular market and a commercial and artistic decline in the record industry as a whole. Says Levy: "With record sales down better than 10% in the last year, it's not just British artists that aren't selling in America." When the sales aren't there, labels won't pay for big tours...
...time, Palmisano had been tapped as a "high potential" leader at IBM and was serving a stint as an executive assistant to Gerstner's predecessor, John Akers, learning the ropes by shadowing the CEO. It was 1989, a few years before Gerstner arrived to tear apart IBM's insular culture, and Big Blue was still plagued by rigid hierarchies, endless meetings and wasteful trappings of executive life...
...past, the student leadership has been criticized as overly insular and highly political...