Word: organism
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...hour work weeks might seem like a drag, but not when you’re taking nightly rides down the double black diamond slopes of Yayo Mountain. For those would-be masters of the universe who share our dream—our dream of stroking JP’s Organ and fondling Goldman’s Sac—we’ll see you atop Manhattan’s Mt. Olympus: Wall Street...
...Department of Education is not an organ of the Department of Commerce, and rightfully so—the methods for qualifying and assessing exemplary educational performance are not the same as those that track our gross domestic product. Unfortunately, the report proposes an extensive “consumer-friendly information database” that will allow people to “weigh and rank comparative institutional performance.” Not only is this proposal cynical about the purpose of education—reducing, as it does, students to “consumers” and academics...
...Things Considered”—catchy, but instantly forgettable. For better and for worse, the instrumentation is more diverse than expected. Piano is all over the place, about as common as the guitar throughout. Strings sap up “Black Flowers.” The organ in “I Should Have Known Better” is used to nice effect, giving the illusion of fun. It’s a wonder how so many different sounds can be used to create something so monotonous. The only traces of the band’s former three...
...Chavez, echoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also took on the U.N. itself in his speech - calling for nothing less than a complete "refounding" of the body to wrest it from what he called the Americans' inordinate domination. "We [the U.N. members] have become a merely deliberative organ," he complained. "We have no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world today." On Thursday, Chavez will continue his New York invasion, visiting Harlem to highlight his program of providing poor Americans with Venezuela-subsidized heating oil - something he started during his U.N. visit last year...
Although Allston will undeniably remain an organ of Harvard University, it is both physically and metaphorically an enormous departure for our august institution. Rather than artificially restrain it, it makes more sense to allow the new campus to pioneer Harvard’s future direction. That process begins with architecture that challenges old ideas and, perhaps more pragmatically, cooperates with its function...