Word: novelness
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...Knight, an American convert, who first articulated a vision for a Muslim punk scene in 2002, when he wrote a novel about it called The Taqwacores. (The title combines the words taqwa, Arabic for "higher consciousness," and core, from hardcore.) He then received an e-mail from a 16-year-old Texan Muslim, Kourosh Poursalehi, who was in a band called Vote Hezbollah, asking how he could get in touch with the mohawked Sufis, skater punks, burqa-wearing riot grrrls and skinhead Shi'ites in the book. When Knight told him it was fiction, Poursalehi responded, "Well, then...
Over sixty participants packed Hawes Lecture Hall for the initial meeting, where they learned that the contest requires teams to propose novel start-up companies and compete to prove their idea is the best. Teams must include at least one Harvard Business School alum...
...piece called “My Video Game Idea” pitches a vision for a new game in a meta-novel-ish vision—a 2-D game that features a voluptuous if pixilated woman is being played by an even more attractive and higher resolution woman, which is being watched and enjoyed by a fat man on a couch, which is all being observed by a fat man who is wearing virtual reality goggles and sitting in a “futuristic chair.” We learn that the man on the couch is really...
Students in attendance said they appreciated the novel examples that Benyus shared. Constantine A. Bouras, a GSD student who took exhaustive notes on the talk, said that it was “imperative that biological mechanisms be integrated into architecture...
...Obama strategy for victory has several parts, few of them novel. He will up the troop strength to nearly 100,000, from just 32,000 when he came into office. He will redouble efforts to support the corrupt Afghan government, build up the so-far scattershot Afghan security apparatus, and refocus efforts on establishing a sustainable, non-narcotic agricultural base for the economy. He promised to begin removing troops in July of 2011, but offered no guidance about the pace of withdrawal or an end point for the war. "As President, I refuse to set goals that go beyond...