Word: microcosms
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Mancall added that in determining freshman roommates, the deans attempt to make “every entryway a microcosm of the College.” This policy helps to maintain diversity within each entryway and highlights one of the major problems with the roommate self-selection taking place at colleges around the country—the potential for self-segregation...
...Love it or hate it (U.S. audiences will not get the chance to do either since no distributor has picked it up), 11'09"01 is the perfect microcosm of a smorgasbord festival like Toronto's: impassioned visions colliding with one another, shouting or mewling for the attention of the browsing movie lover. And unlike other fests, this one has a longtime fondness for Asian films. In the '80s, Toronto introduced North American audiences to Hong Kong's top action directors, John Woo and Tsui Hark; in 1994 it ran a retrospective of Mani Ratnam's Tamil-language politicized melodramas...
Mere days from the primary election, two of Cambridge’s biggest political stars went head-to-head last night in a rancorous yet inconclusive debate at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum—a microcosm of a state Senate election that observers deem too close to call...
Harvard’s depth also made it difficult for opposing defenses to contain the Crimson effectively. Floerchinger pointed to the senior class as a microcosm of this depth...
...CONSTRUCTION A recent industry study showed that at least one-third of St. Louis' 80,000 construction workers are expected to retire in the next five years--a microcosm of the situation nationwide; the industry needs to attract 240,000 new workers each year, from project managers to iron workers, just to compensate for the exodus. The top tradespeople in their fields, such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, bricklayers, roofers and painters, can make upward of $100,000 a year...