Word: popularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Kairos Shen, the popular chief planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, came to Allston last night intending to discuss long-term riverfront property development along Soldier’s Field Road. But at the community wide planning meeting, Shen quickly found his agenda derailed by a smattering of area residents. Aggressively, and at times angrily, they steered the discussion to what they denounced as the City planning agency’s botched handling of the Charlesview Apartments relocation—the “largest and most dynamic” change to the neighborhood in many years...
Just last year alone, 872 students enrolled in Professor Michael Sandel’s legendary course, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice.” But now that Harvard’s most popular class has been made into a public television series of 12 episodes on WGBH, there’s no telling how much larger its “enrollment” will be this season. And while the introduction of the new show “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” makes it easier to get a more...
Most of the “Justice” lectures have already been available online for some time, through its own website or through other Harvard Extension School portals. The creation of the television series was a natural decision for a course that has been so popular for so long among both current Harvard students and alumni...
...writer, O'Neal is actually beating us pros. He is the 10th most popular writer on Twitter, while I am way behind, at 195th. This would be less upsetting if it weren't for the fact that before O'Neal signed up for Twitter, his writing career consisted of spelling his name with a Sharpie. He's crushing my Dorothy Parker-level quips, like "Beer summit koan: If you dispel low-income racial tension by removing alcohol, you dispel upper-income racial tension by adding alcohol," with Shaqisms like "Happy birthday, harry potter main charachter dude." I am being beaten...
...cargo ship of Eastern European origin. Quietly, the chopper disgorges a team of elite commandos, arguably the best in the world, who quickly subdue the crew and remove weapons unlisted on the ship’s manifest. This may be familiar as the opening mission of a widely popular modern combat video game, featuring Britain’s elite Special Air Service. Yet this scene may have actually happened recently —with Israeli troops...