Word: insularity
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...task force, which consists of 12 undergraduates and alumni, was formed last semester when Pryor dissolved the IOP's student governing board, saying it had become both insular and exclusive...
...right candidate will have to be used to slogging long distances with little reward; he or she may need to be an Olympic-level ego stroker. Because it grew so big so fast with so many of the same people in charge, Yahoo has become notorious for its insular us-and-them culture. Only one executive--Sue Decker, the CFO--has arrived from the outside and walked into a corner office...
...insular world of children's music, say experts, this grass-roots popularity is unheard of. "Lots of kids' music, like Barney or Sesame Street, is marketed through TV or film," says David Wolin, a music-industry veteran who takes the classes. "No one is doing what David's doing. He has sort of grown at the pace he's been comfortable with. He's like a commercial boom waiting to hit. His numbers, small by label standards, are astonishing if you consider he's doing this all himself...
Last November, Pryor said he thought the Institute had become insular and exclusive, and that it was not achieving its purpose--to inspire undergraduates to get involved in politics...
Jordanna P. Schutz '02, a physics and math concentrator in Dunster House, was an editorial cartoonist her freshman year, for which she apologizes sincerely. Her subject matter will include a smattering of insular Harvard humor and a handful of commentary on current events, and will avoid at all costs "meta" jokes about the cartoonist not having time to think of a good joke because she is too stressed with her manic Harvard life and too busy searching the Cue Guide for that Holy Grail of a decent Core. Her cartoon appears on Fridays...