Word: socialism
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...Twitterverse: the social-networking site Twitter and its users
...Anniversary Edition, published Sept. 3. To qualify for inclusion in the esteemed lexicon, a word had to have, over the past two years, six quality citations in Collins' digital corpus, a computerized database that scans 2.5 billion words across a number of print and online resources. (See the best social-networking applications...
...rise of social-networking sites led to the addition of Twitter (the noun) and twitter (the verb), while the kind of dashed-off writing that appears in posts on that site has given new permanence to words such as hmm, heh, and mwah (the sound of an exaggerated kiss) that were previously considered mere sounds. "Had Twitter and Facebook not become so popular, there's no doubt these terms would not have been included," says Duncan Black, editor of the dictionary. "They're part of the language of microblogging." (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...vision. An internal Harvard memo obtained in 2005 by the Boston Globe demonstrated that Harvard students are less happy with their experience than their peers at an elite group of 31 colleges known as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, with frustration at a lack of an adequate social life and campus community playing a significant role in that dissatisfaction...
...down efforts to create a meaningful space for student life have been unsuccessful. The Loker Commons folded after great cost; the Queen’s Head Pub, though admirable, is inaccessible to the majority of undergraduates; and the Student Organization Center at Hilles is too removed to provide a social alternative adequate for the Harvard community. If you pressed a Harvard student to name the social center of campus life, a clear majority might embarrassingly cite Lamont Café, which is, after all, in a library...