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...University will likely employ an academic headhunting firm to narrow the field of candidates. The search will take at least six to eight months, says a member of one such firm in Boston...
...that it's a hulking lunker of a building with a tapering chimney that doesn't so much echo the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral on the opposite side of the river as flip it the bird. Nevertheless it has a happy squat symmetry, enhanced by groups of narrow windows that stripe nearly the entire height of the building. It also has size, which modern art loves. And its sooty past is apposite. Y.B.A.s (as young British artists are known) have been showing and creating their works in abandoned warehouses and factories for years, as have young artists everywhere...
...economy and global military reach. The word was popularized in the 1960s to fit the U.S., the only holder of the title today. China will have neither the material wealth of the U.S., nor its global military reach. But looking at the rise of China through the narrow framework of numbers of automobiles or Osprey helicopters doesn't come to grips with the country's sources of power. Defining a superpower in terms of economic and military size leaves out the power that comes from being able to upset the system, even when done unintentionally. A new definition of superpower...
Those who like to keep issues straight and narrow tend to resist broadening the definition of poverty. Why not just look at incomes and ask a question like "How many people live on less than, say, $1 or $2 a day?" This narrow analysis then takes the uncomplicated form of predicting trends and counting the poor. It is a cheap way of telling "the future of the poor." But human lives can be impoverished in many different ways. Politically unfree citizens--whether rich or poor--are deprived of a basic constituent of good living. The same applies to such social...
...whites, slave quarters off somewhere out of sight, the capital city's terrible metaphysical division: White-Black, Power-No Power, Exist-Don't Exist). My surprise turned to wonder: at the sheer numbers, at the people, dignified, well-dressed (men in starched short-sleeved white shirts and narrow ties and pressed slacks, women in neat summer church dresses), the Constitution's right of peaceable assembly come to life...