Word: phenomenons
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...explain the literally unprecedented Harry Potter phenomenon, starting with Rowling, now 35, whose life has been changed utterly by the product of her imagination. Seven years ago, she was the single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income...
...Global Trends 2015" sees the declining authority of the state as a general worldwide phenomenon in the age of globalization. States remain the main actors on the international stage, but their ability to control the movement of everything from capital and commodities to guns, diseases and people is being diminished. And dealing with such a world requires that the U.S. adapt its own government structures and make them more interdisciplinary than at present...
More often than not, the Good Guy gets the short end of the stick at Harvard--not to blame the College, the University administration or anything else related to the school. This phenomenon is a product of our own unfettered ambition, our own corroded values and our own endorsement of the political wheeling and dealing that goes on at this school. We adhere to our principles so long as they don't conflict with our avaricious aspirations, and we admire our leaders so long as we know we'll eventually have a wink and a nod coming back...
...Everyone at Harvard procrastinates," Brinton said. " It's the paper phenomenon. If you assign a paper due in three weeks, no one's going to do it until right before it's due." Brinton said he believed that the number of dues-paying members who had crossed party lines to vote was "minimal...
...press stopped publishing in 1976, due in part to a lack of "interesting manuscripts." North, gentle and erudite, partly blames the "fake professionalization of poetry and by the MFA phenomenon" for the shoddy state of contemporary verse. Indeed, Masters programs at prestigious schools (of which Iowa is the most famous) seem increasingly out of touch with the imaginative energy so consistent of underground communities. But today's problems are also economic. When publishing was cheaper, poets could devote their time to the serious business of writing verse-and keep their sense of humor about it. "Now," Fagin laments, "poets...