Word: sphere
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...country's lackluster political class still oversees a system of corrupt and malign decision-making that has failed to meet the most basic needs of its 500,000 citizens. Trust in the public sphere is virtually nonexistent, and by almost every measure of well-being, Solomon Islanders are the region's poor relations, their natural resources sold cheaply or stolen. "It's like Solomon Islands fell down a well," says Johnson Honimae, until recently general manager of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation and now head of the government's information unit. "We are hurt, the water...
...institution so literally and figuratively rich with resources, it is hard to believe that more could not be done to include women and minorities, the forgotten of Harvard’s history, in the very public image of the college. Moderate attempts to include women in the sphere of academia have included the recent addition of a portrait of Elizabeth Agassiz, the first president of Radcliffe College, in the Faculty Room of University Hall and a portrait of Helen Keller in the rededicated Barker Center...
...President Brian M. Wendell ’05 writes in an e-mail that his club has offered him a social sphere that Harvard couldn’t. “Harvard, in my opinion, does not emphasize social life for students as much as other schools, perhaps due to liability fears and image concerns,” he writes...
...global. “Sometimes you lose every nickel you had, but the world goes ‘round.” A luminescent orange globe is a fixture in the background, as is pianist Ben E. Green ’06, whose keyboard stands directly behind the glowing sphere. The two enjoy a mutually reinforcing relationship. The World Goes ’Round is, therefore, a successful attempt to localize all the world to the musical stage...
This fidelity to art led Cummings to forsake many aspects of the non-aesthetic sphere. “He never held a job in his life excepting six weeks. Work would have been a distraction: his art was paramount...