Word: recentering
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...noted that increasing competition from graduate and undergraduate programs abroad has been a recurrent recent pattern. Top schools in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong have all reportedly raised their enrollment numbers to accommodate regional students...
Americans seem willing to make this sacrifice, but just barely. About one half of Americans support health-care reform, even though only roughly one fifth of Americans predict a material gain from such support of a national system. According to a recent CBS poll, only 22 percent of Americans “said the reforms now being considered would help them personally,” while 30 percent even believed that “reforms would hurt them personally.” In the same poll, 53 percent favored “the government offering everyone a government administered health...
...These days, I don’t see a whole lot of activism on campuses,” she said. “Recent generations of students are focused on where they can get rather than challenging the order...
...element of organization and solidarity has been lost in recent feminist trends,” she said. “But I believe that social movements in general are moving toward more diverse tactics and offering really good ideas for how to change things...
...volume is how thick it is. Though this is technically another “selected” Rilke, it is far more thorough than Mitchell’s or Bly’s. The sheer amount of translation here is both admirable and convenient; it is the most complete recent collection of Rilke’s works in English. This is the culmination of Snow’s several previously-published translations of Rilke’s individual volumes, revised and collected in this larger book...