Word: rebirths
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...poetry and dance festival in July because men and women wouldn't be separated. A mural commissioned for a public park in Nablus was barred by the city engineer because it "constituted idol worship and is not allowed in Islam." And sometimes the conflicts turn ugly. The town's rebirth extends to the culinary arts: Ramallah has 20 top-class restaurants, all better than anything else in the West Bank or Gaza, including five that have opened just in the last six months. But restaurateurs can't always shut out politics. Darna is a popular, traditional Middle Eastern eatery, where...
...regain “a sense of stability.” Slattery, a New Orleans native, said he has “mixed feelings” about returning to Tulane. “I love my city a lot and I want to see the city at its rebirth,” he said. But, he added, his Harvard experience has been positive. “I’ve gotten to know people from all over and I’ve made friendships that will last my whole life,” he said...
...with song lyrics, shape poems, plays, and political ads. Sixteen years after “Christopher”’s first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores. In the nine months preceding his birth on Oct. 12, 1992 (the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival), Christopher reconstructs the web of romances and hatreds, schemes and coincidences that caused his conception and will shape his destiny. He begins, naturally, with his parents...
However the somewhat confounding rebirth of snobbery makes perfect sense if one remembers that, for all of our protestations to the contrary, Harvard students are just people. Normal people. Granted, we may be very smart and some of us might be hard working, but, fundamentally, we are not at all different from those we often mock and disparage. That this needs to even be stated is evidence of how bad things have become, but let us remember that people are, more often than not, selfish, narrow-minded, and prejudiced. Thus we see Harvard students writing that athletes as a whole...
...cover of TIME, which lauded his work as the "most skillfully coordinated of all big-city programs in the U.S."; in Philadelphia. Among his contributions: the conception of Penn Center, a collection of high-rises, shops and restaurants credited with sparking the city's rebirth. Bacon's 1967 book, Design of Cities, remains a staple of many architecture classes...