Word: insularly
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...plays-that cater to the entire Yard and to upperclass students. Wigglesworth's common room boasts a pool table that attracted hustlers form other halls. If the residents of a hall come to understand that they will be accountable for damage done by outsiders, halls may quickly become insular. Should residents of a particular hall start to be distrustful of other Yard dwellers, the spirit and purpose of the Yard will suffer...
...could become ever more valuable even as the products it enables grow ever less so. "I can go online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates could find the insular banking world a tough nut to crack. Well before MSFDC, the industry launched the software consortium Integrion as its bulwark against territorial infringement. Today Integrion competes with MSFDC even as it licenses Microsoft Money. Microsoft, meanwhile, plays the good citizen, agreeing to abide by the E-commerce software platform that an industry group will...
...nothing seems to be further from the Harvard mind than this April holiday. The students with whom I discussed Patriot's Day either had no idea what I was talking about or were nostalgic for high school when this holiday was observed. Some charged that Harvard, insular as it can be, does not consider itself part of Massachusetts, but that is profoundly untrue. Not only does Harvard appear in the state constitution (exempting itself from taxes, but that is another story), but the University is a proud part of Cambridge, relying on and contributing to the community is ways that...
...still in the dark about Edward O. Wilson and what he does for a living, you have already proved the point of his latest book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Knopf; 332 pages; $26). The modern mind, Wilson argues, is so compartmentalized by specialization and insular beliefs that we have lost faith in seeing the natural world as an integrated whole...
...junior faculty are almost never tenured, there is no ethnic studies department, the Core has not (really) been reformed and finals are still after Christmas." Each of these concerns is Harvard-centered, and with the exception of a multi-cultural student center and an ethnic studies department, is an insular (and yes, selfish) demand. Second, none of these is or should be critical enough to raise such indignation as Green musters or as has been aroused in Harvard's past. Activism can only be taken seriously when it is necessary...