Word: singularizing
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...years after entering the professional world of non-profits, Gail King is still impressed with Harvard’s singular approach to public service. “What program is going to say to an undergraduate, ‘Hey, direct my afterschool program?’” King was also able to make a seamless transition into professional work in Roxbury because she had already been part of the service community there for four years—as a volunteer and then director of the Mission Hill After School program...
...when the Saudis protested U.S. support for Israel by embargoing oil sales to the U.S. for five months, causing the worst gasoline shortages in U.S. history. From Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and, significantly, his father, President Bush is hearing a singular line from his most important foreign policy advisers: that he must engage with the Saudis, work with them to bring about change and not alienate them. Indeed, when President Bush spoke to Abdullah for 20 minutes by phone last week, say U.S. and Saudi sources, he went...
...Malay Archipelago regularly crossed the Indian Ocean, and even established colonies in East Africa, centuries before Borobudur was built. As he gazed at the sculpture, a great idea possessed him: this, he thought, was the very ship that the ancient Indonesians sailed to Africa. With the boldness and singular clarity of youth, he decided he would build that ship and make that voyage...
Adjaye may be a singular man, but there's no one way to understand him. He's part go-your-own-way artist, part passionate communitarian, part canny salesman, part lyrical architectural philosopher. (One typical pronouncement: "I think design is a defunct word. I curate spaces.") The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he was born in Tanzania and raised in Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon. He brings to his work the eye of a man who has learned as much from the intricately woven streetscapes of Cairo as from the ideal geometries of Le Corbusier. "I spent my childhood...
...such spectacles should not obscure the singular journey implicit in every adult Bat Mitzvah, Elaine Weiss's included. Weiss grew up Orthodox. Her brothers were Bar Mitzvahed--she remembers flinging celebratory candy from the women's balcony--but she never even took Hebrew. Feeling "empty" at mostly Hebrew services, she gravitated to Reform Judaism, whose prayer book provides English translations. A son was Bar Mitzvahed at Temple Israel and two daughters Bat Mitzvahed. But something was still wrong. One day Weiss visited the grave of a grandfather who had been a rabbi. She could not read the Hebrew...