Word: mainstreaming
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...Over the past year or so, blogging has hit the mainstream and increasingly people have been turning to citizen journalists and bloggers as credible sources of news,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School (HLS) and Lecturer at HLS, who himself keeps an online blog...
...While the U.S. brands Hizballah a terrorist organization, Tuesday's turnout signaled the depth of its roots in the Lebanese mainstream. The Iran-backed Islamist organization, which maintains a militia that would likely be more than a match for the Lebanese national army in the event of a showdown, currently holds more seats than any other single party in Lebanon's parliament. The party is the major voice in the Shiite community, which today may be around 40 percent of Lebanon's population...
...believing, conservative Christian," Kingsbury has written 22 novels, seven currently on the Christian best-seller list. She has more than 2 million books in print. With her popularity and prolific output, she is developing into the Nora Roberts of the religious set. That has not escaped the notice of mainstream publishers, many of which are trying to cash in on the ever burgeoning religious market. Last summer she was signed by Center Street, a new imprint of Time Warner Book Group (like TIME, a division of Time Inc.), which the company says will release "wholesome" books targeted at "America...
...behind have faced special obstacles and hardships: diseases such as malaria, drought-prone climates in locations not suitable for irrigation, extreme isolation in mountains and landlocked regions, an absence of energy resources such as coal, gas and oil, and other liabilities that have kept these areas outside of the mainstream of global economic growth. Countries ranging from Bolivia to Malawi to Afghanistan face challenges almost unknown in the rich world, challenges that are at first harrowing to contemplate, but on second thought encouraging in the sense that they also lend themselves to practical solutions...
...Three Sisters played there) and, at the end of the second semester, a Coffeehouse showcasing Leverites.Leverett also boasts an under-used Art Studio (Leverett residents only, A-entry basement), a Music Practice Room (Leverett residents only, G-tower basement), and a Film Society video collection featuring mainstream and slightly-less-mainstream rentals.The Leverett arts scene saw its heyday in 2000, when the extensive but outdated Arts Society webpage was last updated. The house once boasted weekly figure-drawing classes open to everyone, which shows what might be done with a little initiative. According to tutor Nicholas P. Vines...