Word: malling
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Democracy is epitomized by the bazaar or the mall, and this is what the university is becoming. It wants to be inclusive, indiscriminate and accommodating toward every predilection. The university thus admits students less and less according to rigorous standards of individual excellence, and more and more according to the diverse backgrounds and experiences they can import into the student body. In other facets of the university as well, variety is prevailing over quality. Witness the accelerating proliferation of concentrations, special concentrations and sub-concentrations, and the clamor for even more, such as ethnic studies...
...Touch of Elegance: Start at Copley Square, site of some of the city's most elegant buildings and the intersection of history and modernity--old churches and a new mall. Then explore the tony Back Bay section of Boston. Go window shopping on Newbury Street (on a student's budget, it would be difficult actually to shop in this area). And dine at one of the many restaurants; some are even affordably priced. These neighborhoods are a perfect destination on a warm spring or fall evening...
...coach, throwing her clothes in the pool and spitting in her direction. A severe asthmatic, Van Dyken was a skinny girl with a persistent cough who struggled to make it through a race. But a decade of determination later, "it felt good," she says, "to walk into the mall and see these girls who wouldn't swim a relay with me because I swam so bad. I said, 'Hi, how're you doing? By the way, I'm swimming in five events in the Olympics. What have you been...
...days I don't have meetings on the Mall, I can go 10 hours without going outside. My office building is connected to a Metro station. So from the time I set foot on the Dupont Circle Metro escalator in the morning until I step off the escalator in the evening...
Even the National Mall, the mile-long National Park Service land stretching from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol, offers little respite...