Word: specializing
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...prejudice of some kind. But for many, I would say, this is more in the nature of stereotypes we hold or assumptions we make that are not based on knowledge or experience. For a long time, I've wanted to get to the root of this issue. In our special report on race and in our annual America by the Numbers franchise, we look at the role race is playing. No one can say for certain what is in people's hearts. But what we found is a very American answer: people are pragmatic and seem willing to evaluate...
...feeling a great disconnection from Harvard,” Coit says. “This [portraiture] has made me feel a lot more connected to the institution.” Grindlay focuses on this same power of connection. “For me these portraits are a special thing that makes history more real,” she says. “It can be a very effective connection. It can be used very successfully as a way of understanding the institution...
...most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that’s what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world. I mean, I thought when I was a kid that I could communicate with ghosts by using my grandfather’s old Underwood typewriter, and I thought that if I didn’t put paper in it I could somehow type letters...
...administrators were.“Everybody’s who’s involved with it wants to be there,” said Stephen A. Mitchell, a professor of Scandinavian and folklore and the previous chair of the Folk and Myth committee.The faculty on the steering committee specialize in areas ranging from Germanic, Slavic, Greek, and Celtic languages and literature to archaeology, religion, and art and architecture.“Even though we all come with our intellectual kit bags packed differently, everyone has a clear idea about where we overlap, which is a real interest in tradition...
...papacy was to effectively suspend the internal Vatican process that leads to sainthood for Pius, citing a need for a "period of reflection." Now, however, Benedict appears to have finished his own reflecting on the historical virtues of the Italian Pope who reigned from 1939 to 1958. At a special Mass on Thursday marking 50 years since Pius' death, Benedict praised his wartime predecessor's actions to save Jews and called on Catholics to "pray that the cause of his beatification goes forward smoothly." Beatification is the final step before canonization, when a Church figure becomes a saint. Thursday coincidentally...