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...will be the nexus between Google and scholarship,” she said...
...THINK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SMART PLAY? I think that when he came on our show, it was supposed to be the product of this new nexus of young news media and presidential politics, and something really interesting and unusual was going to come out of it. And it turned out to be just the same old crappy comedian talking to a presidential candidate who was trying not to make himself look stupid...
...colonial with brick-lined walkways. Cambridge is the seventh largest city in the state, with over 40,000 residents in the age span of 18 to 29. Despite its presence of youth, the cobblestone streets speak to a revered past when the Square was no more than a nexus of street railway routes leading to Boston suburbs...
They are also the most enjoyable pop group to emerge in recent memory, largely because they understand the genre so well. Pop music--where the same three chords have been swapping clothes for the past 50 years--is the nexus of the avant-garde and the conventional, and on their debut, out (finally) July 27, the Scissor Sisters--Shears, Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Paddy Boom and Del Marquis--walk the line with Madonna-like confidence. Take Your Mama, their first single, is about getting Mom drunk on cheap champagne so you can come out of the closet to her while going...
...into this complex, often darkly funny nexus of soccer's traditional role as metaphor for national and ethnic warfare and the forces of globalization that are changing the face of the game that New Republic writer Franklin Foer steps in his new book, "How Soccer Explains the World". It's a compelling and ambitious project that seeks to chart the impact of the crashing waves of globalization on the traditional tribal barriers that have long defined the culture of soccer...