Word: preservationism
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• As South Carolina First Lady, she has championed improving fitness and nutrition in the state. She is active in state nonprofits that are devoted to health and historic preservation. Friends call her warm, though steely and strong-willed. She often cites her strong religious faith as a source of...
Obama spoke of doing something greater than yourself. He asked House Dems to join him in "bending the arc of history," a phrase he first invoked in his election-victory speech a year ago before 125,000 people in Chicago's Grant Park. And though there was cheering and chants...
Recently, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith wrote in his annual report that our vaunted library system will need to be reshaped with “a dramatically smaller base of resources.” While times are tough, the administration should be extremely reluctant to slash...
This university acquired its name in 1638 as a result of a bequest of 400 books from John Harvard. The spread and preservation of the written word has been essential to its mission ever since, and we must not allow tough economic times to damage this legacy.
Critics, take note: Tightly crafted prose and lofty moral sentiments may have their place, but what really matters at the end of the day is the number of times a text mentions camels. “The first thing a falsifier, a tourist, an Arab nationalist would do is have...