Word: presentism
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...live there--a few still do--but now the apartments start at $1 million-plus, making it strictly the domain of the wealthy. ("Money wants what it can't buy," Bushnell writes, "class and talent.") The friction between those two worlds--rich and poor, crass and cultured, New York present and New York past--gives the book its heat. Well, that...
...Through the efforts of these law students and of the LGBT community at large, the law school was certainly more bearable for sexual minorities in this decade than when Lambda was founded. However, with these improvements, the sense of urgency so present in the early days of Lambda has waned somewhat. The focus of Lambda has shifted to social and community building events, with activism and political organization taking more of a backseat role. While we have a yearly conference addressing cutting edge LGBT legal issues, it tends to be more academic than rabble-rousing...
...class, he usually tries to present different angles of an issue and approaches it from a really interesting perspective that nails the academic side with the practical side,” Diaz says...
...adding “more of the same will not suffice.” Barroso, a former Portuguese prime minister educated in Lisbon, Geneva, and Washington, D.C., focused his remarks on what he saw as the dilemmas of an increasingly globalized, interdependent world. Citing the present financial crisis and violence in Georgia as examples of the interconnectedness of today’s world, he referred to challenges that had “no respect for national frontiers.” Barroso pointed to the increasing utility of “soft power,” which he defined almost exclusively...
Allston residents voiced strong concerns about traffic problems caused by growth and institutional expansion despite reassurances by Harvard and Boston representatives that solutions were at hand during last night’s Community-wide Plan meeting on transportation. Both Harvard and Boston officials presented plans that focused on expansions of bicycle lanes, bus lanes, and pedestrian-friendly streets in order to make Allston a more accessible, less automobile-dependent neighborhood. City transportation experts also suggested introducing “mobility hubs” on Allston streets, roadside centers that would provide opportunities for bicycle rentals and car-pooling. Although...