Word: realm
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...think it's partially genetic. We [Domar and her co-author, Alice Lesch Kelly] talked about 200 women. Most women who have issues in this realm either had a parent who was a perfectionist or had a parent who was a slob. If it is genetic, then I guess they follow in their parent's footsteps or they rebel and go the opposite...
...optimistic given the kinds of hires we have been able to make,” he said. “We have a very, very strong group of assistant professors.” Gross said that a return to Harvard was not out of the realm of possibility. “It’s a fantastic community of scholars and scientists, and I loved the intellectual inquisitiveness of the place,” he wrote. “The students have been great.” “I’d love to come back to Harvard...
...grow attached, and so, even though there is some sort of emotional trajectory written into the story and some sort of movement in the work, it feels as if there is none. The only real action that the reader experiences is the progression of thought. And this is the realm that Gessen is truly concerned about.“Literary Men” is a novel obsessed with ideas. Each character lives in the world of his thoughts, fanatically obsessed with a particular subject—for Keith, it is modern American politics, for Mark, the 1917 Russian Revolution...
What is holding these marriages together? We can probably assume elected officials aren’t simply more loving than the rest of us. The answer appears to be found instead in the realm of public image and power. Recent examples of resilient political couplings are not hard to find. Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s wife stood by him while he was accused of soliciting sex in an airport men’s restroom. More recently, Silda Wall Spitzer was there for her husband (and the press conference cameras) while he resigned as New York?...
...Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, charges and counter-charges over alleged Syrian responsibility continue to haunt the Middle East. But the outcome of the investigation into the killing of a leader who stood up to Syrian influence in his country may yet be decided in the realm of politics. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a senior Republican who recently visited Syria, last week publicly suggested that the U.N. inquiry into Hariri's killing could be reduced in scope in exchange for greater security and political cooperation from Damascus in key areas of U.S. concern. Specter said...