Word: retreatism
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...Wonderland. Foreseeing the benefits for Cambridge townies who can’t all fit into Lamont and Café Gato Rojo, Harvard decided to order one hundred. Thank God that Assistant to the Associate picked up a copy of Sky Mall on his way back from an administrative retreat in Scottsdale, Arizona. It’s really a brilliant move if you consider two things. First, the local yard sale and Craig’s List economy needed an injection of seating instruments and scrap metal. Second is that all those times I want to sit and chat with friends...
...these fancy new villas in Kabul where the diplomats and the rich businessmen live? They'll go to al-Qaeda families," says Mir, adding that a "defeat" of the U.S.-led forces here would be a boon to Muslim extremists around the world, much as the Soviet army's retreat from Afghanistan was during the late 1980s. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...every student actually feels pressure to contribute. All too often, the three individuals who enter the class perfectly at ease in front of a group monopolize section discussions, leaving everyone else relieved (and slightly annoyed). As a result, those who most need the practice can easily retreat to the back, avoiding the immediate discomfort but also forgoing a greater opportunity...
With privacy at a premium, he'd often retreat to a Port-A-Potty to practice the focusing skills he'd learned from Ernst at Fort Bragg. "To have a way to shut all this off is invaluable," says...
...were Obama, I’d be worried about this more than anything. Because the health-care battle is about more than health care: It’s about whether young Americans will regain faith in the American political system or wake up from the Obama dream and retreat toward complacency and disillusionment...