Word: reborning
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...Lebanon's sunny shoreline is filled with vacationing families from the Gulf states. By night, the city's watering holes throb with oil-rich Arab playboys and European hipsters who have flocked to see the new Beirut. Once a by-word for civil war, Lebanon's capital was recently reborn as Middle East party central...
...Morgan and his peers have taken small steps on the path to their loftier goal: a New Orleans, completely reborn...
Broadmoor—like the rest of New Orleans—wants to be reborn. But first, it must submit a proposal to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, a group of community experts and prominent ex-New Orleanians appointed by the mayor to shape the face of the rebuilt city...
...committee's recommendations are adopted, the old district offices would be reborn as strategic centers, setting academic standards, analyzing data and imposing accountability for a network of schools. Cowen says schools would have more autonomy, with principals hiring teachers and controlling 80% of school dollars...
...hears her speaking to a man in English over the phone, that she has become someone else. (When he finds out his daughter's new boyfriend is from Romania, Mr. Shi tries to stay positive: "At least the man grew up in a communist country.") In their reborn American selves, father and daughter achieve a level of honesty, however painful, that was impossible in China. "If you grew up in a language that you never used to express your feelings, it would be easier to take up another language and talk more in the new language," the daughter explains...