Word: rethinking
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...Americans must make the same choice that Chicago made in 1871. Those common-sense Midwesterners understood that wood construction represented the past, and likewise today, we must rethink solutions for the future. Congress, sequestered far away in Washington D.C., may not understand or may have shied away from these realities, but the American people must consider them. We must aspire to become a model for sustainability that the rest of the world can look to in the coming century. Cities around the world continue to copy Chicago, and we can only hope that countries will be copying our blueprint...
...treasures are jealously protected by the state. Culture, says Salvatore Settis, an Italian professor of art history and classical archaeology, "holds a historic memory that belongs to the citizens." This same deep sense of obligation is shared by governments across Europe. But fiscal pressures are forcing countries to rethink and restructure the way they look after their artistic pasts - and nurture the present and future. It's not that public funding is falling; in the U.K. and France, for example, money for the arts has risen slightly. But governments across Europe are pressuring arts bodies to become more self-sufficient...
...Black Harvard Women for sending the right message to these individuals, but it is, in fact, absurd to ask anyone for a written statement of their commitment to diversity without any evidence of wrongdoing or intolerance. We’d encourage the women’s groups involved to rethink their attack on Daniel, Houghton and Stone. It is doomed to the failure that such an ethically ridiculous initiative deserves...
Over the past months, Rangel has become one of the most vocal critics of the impending war with Iraq, advocating a draft without exemptions for all citizens ages 18 to 26—on the grounds that Washington policymakers may rethink their support for war if their own children are “in harm?...
...year education, a natural extension of coursework done in large lecture classes and cores, and an opportunity to focus on a deepening or a broadening of ideas that have been sparked along the way. And as for requirements still to be met, I suspect that we procrastinators would seriously rethink our game plans were such a spring installed as a hallmark of a Harvard education...