Word: reinvent
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Congratulations to Daniel Eisenberg for a strong, balanced piece on Amtrak and its future [BUSINESS, Dec. 3]. Breaking up Amtrak only to reinvent it would be a mistake. The intercity rail system is one of the few institutions that unites our country, in a physical as well as spiritual sense, by connecting the small towns and cities of the West and South to the populous coastal and Midwest corridors. Splitting those people off from service, as some would propose, is deeply elitist, and would cast into Depression-era isolation the very people who in so many ways are the backbone...
...Building more communication is really important and could be very useful,” she said. “Other Houses do great things and sharing information could increase overall social life at Harvard. I think it’s silly to reinvent the wheel each time...
...year's Nobel Prize for Literature. Naipaul's novels and reportage have helped shape our perceptions of places we hear about only when they are hit by civil wars and famines. His oblique stories about his journey from obscurity to knighthood suggest how difficult ?it must have been to reinvent himself in a society that treated its colonials like illegitimate cousins...
...repeating again and again, “I don’t want to fade away / I don’t want to fade away.” With their long-established and steady fan-base, Priest’s disappearance is not imminent, but with their inability to reinvent themselves in Halford’s absence, the fading has already begun...
...there is more to the story than a simple lack of adventurousness on the part of undergraduates. Too often, Harvard is about reinforcing our strengths, instead of prompting us to reinvent, to take risks and to change. Last semester, on the spur of the moment, I switched my concentration from biology to philosophy. I thought that I had found my true passion, and I tried to reinvent myself. But, starting anew becomes practically impossible here, as early as second semester of sophomore year. With first semester sophomore tutorials and concentration requirements ranging from 13-16 courses, undergraduates need to come...