Word: orients
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...University, you have the freedom. Teaching gets left up to individual tastes.” Bybee says. This freedom, at the price of a secure future, is a good thing the way he explains it. “The uncertainty has two sides to it. It can really orient your attention outside the institution onto that national audience. But it also gives you the freedom to do what you want. I really do like teaching, and teaching undergraduates for me that meant I could put a lot of energy into classes. I really think that...
Back in the roaring twenties, Shanghai doubled as Asia's commercial center and a playground for swashbuckling entrepreneurs from around the globe. Nightclubs like the Art Deco Ciro's and elegant hotels like the Cathay earned the city its nickname: the Paris of the Orient. And today, after decades in eclipse, Shanghai is once again red hot and swinging. As CEOs and heads of state gather there in October for conferences prior to the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, they will find plenty to do in their leisure time. Crumbling colonial villas have been converted into funky bars...
...himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said, faces a more elusive enemy. The speech was really more Truman 1948 than FDR 1941. Bush sought to define a new world, to orient the work of the federal government around the central idea of defeating terrorism just as Truman and The Wise Men like Dean Acheson and Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They succeeded, of course; Stalin?s nuclear weapons and takeover of Eastern...
...himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said, faces a more elusive enemy. The speech was really more Truman 1948 than FDR 1941. Bush sought to define a new world, to orient the work of the federal government around the central idea of defeating terrorism just as Truman and The Wise Men like Dean Acheson and Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They succeeded, of course; Stalin?s nuclear weapons and takeover of Eastern...
Sunset over Ha Long Bay off the northeast coast of Vietnam creates a scene that defines the Orient. The silhouetted islands, great limestone columns soaring out over the sea from the slenderest of bases, assume such perfection of proportion and form as to mock all man-made sculpture as artless imitation. Centuries ago, the harmony of this seascape inspired a whole school of Vietnamese painting. To drift today in a red-sailed junk beneath the yawning overhangs and watch the fading light transform rock peaks and fringing jungle into giant figurines is, for a few short moments, to become part...