Word: scopes
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...like a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Handey’s narrator appears to be a middle-aged man with a penchant for his own “funny cowboy dance.” But the individual sketches are very much units unto themselves, preventing the book from having the virtuosic scope and insight of a “Cat’s Cradle” (not that it’s trying to be “Cat’s Cradle,” anyway). Handey’s dark and bizarre humor works. In his sketch...
...seeming intractability of a crime like genocide may prompt naysayers to question the efficacy of activism. In this paper, other writers have suggested that American citizens can do nothing more than “hope and pray” to stem such abuses. Given the magnitude and scope of global human rights violations, it is not difficult to see how resignation can become a reflex...
After Kowalcky’s presentation, the BRA’s new director of planning Kairos Shen took the floor to present the draft of the city’s scope for Harvard’s master plan. He emphasized what the BRA saw as the need for the University to integrate its new structures with the community around them and the necessity of increasing residents’ access to public open spaces...
Harvard’s Chief Planner Kathy Speigelman said that she was pleased with the BRA’s scope...
...involvement in the developing world yesterday afternoon at the Harvard School of Public Health. Farmer, a professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, spoke alongside two other medical experts about the intimate connection between poverty and disease and the need for intervention at a much broader scope. “It’s not fair for people to be able to starve in the 21st century when there’s such affluence,” said Farmer. During the two-hour discussion, the panelists talked on topics ranging from gender equity in Rwanda to the controversy...