Word: particularity
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...program,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I know its been a long while since Harvard basketball has been able to win this weekend, and it was nice to have these kids be on the winning side of it.”Those kids, particularly the front-court duo of Brad Unger and Evan Harris and the mid-range assassin Jeremy Lin, combined for 62 of the Crimson’s points. The team as a whole shot 53 percent from the floor and 54 percent from beyond the three-point...
...Space Odyssey,” “Boyz in Da Hood,” “The Lion King” and “Driving Miss Daisy.” To Gondry, both his films and the Sweded videotapes express the particular identities of their creators. When making a movie, the director faces a million thematic and technical problems. “And each way, each time you solve a problem, you’re gonna solve it with who you are,” he says. “The problems you have to solve when...
...colleague and I had waited in line to introduce ourselves, and when he remembered her question from weeks ago, I was so impressed,” James said. “These things might seem little, but they mean much.” Faculty members also said they had particular hopes for the direction in which Casey should lead DePauw. Victor A. DeCarlo, chair of the DePauw Physics and Astronomy Department, said that Casey should strive “toward the diversification of the student body begun by our current president,” “I would also...
...photographic reconstructions of famous landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, the structure disassembles and seems to be dancing, breaking, or floating into air. He creates his works by taking individual photos of the architecture, which resemble tiles composing the whole. Kellner alters our usual perspective by tilting particular photos at angles. In this way, a formerly stable image in the world’s collective psyche can shift, to become a wavering mass of once-familiar images. Although not as iconic as the Eiffel Tower, the Boston Athenaeum was one of the nation’s first independent libraries. Created...
...Many Serbs see Kosovo as their ancestral homeland . They believe they are being unfairly punished for the sins of one man, Slobodan Milosevic, the former strongman who died in 2006 while facing war crimes charges in the Hague. And they blame the U.S. in particular for backing Kosovo Albanians drive to independence. U.S. warplanes bombed Belgrade in 1999 at the height of the campaign to stop Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" campaign in Kosovo...