Word: insularly
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...real driving force was a desire to reap the full benefits that were supposed to result from randomization—fully integrated House communities where students would be encouraged to transcend the boundaries of insular blocking groups and reach out socially to other groups. But while the smaller blocking group sizes have increased demograhic diversity, the masters largely say they have not witnessed an increased sense of overall House community, class spirit or involvement, as hoped...
...like to know how many students have ever attended a student film screening, art exhibit, concert, dance show, play or literary reading on this campus. I have done all of those things, as have most of my friends. I fear we’re too insular. We are each other’s audience. But we don’t do art only for other artists, and at our best we don’t do it only for ourselves...
...bankrupt German firm KirchMedia, which failed after owner Leo Kirch overexpanded into pay TV and sports programming. Saban was a dark horse, competing against global media giants like Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. But by early this year, Saban had talked his way into Germany's insular media community and, with a $2 billion offer, snagged the prize. "Haim never takes no for an answer," says Shuki Levy, a longtime friend...
Human history shows that insular priesthoods, religious, secular and scientific form again and again to keep outsiders out and keep insiders privileged. This may or may not be the case with Stephen Jay Gould and company. The only way to tell is to honestly and fairly look at the evidence. Science prospers in political systems where the free flow of information and ideas is allowed. Don’t let The Crimson become part of the problem due to a naive view of human history and human nature...
...penetrating look at the rise and fall and rise of a nation jolted out of 250 years of isolation by the arrival in 1853 of Perry's menacing flotilla. Like others who have put modern Japan on the couch, Buruma concludes that the feverish drive to Westernize left the insular nation with a permanent identity crisis and a bad case of cultural indigestion. But his diagnosis is subtler than most: he suggests that the reactionary forces that led Japan into World War II promoted myths of Japaneseness?including the Emperor cult?that were themselves based on ideas borrowed from...