Word: sphere
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...It’s a shift away from very visible public intellectuals to very prolific intellectuals who are not necessarily recognizable in a public sphere,” says Glenda R. Carpio, assistant professor of African and African American Studies. “That’s a significant shift, and it’s going to take some time for the number of concentrators to catch...
...recent report of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) proposes many new and exciting curricular modifications in this sphere as well a much-needed new emphasis on the importance of the sciences. The principles laid out in the report for science education, however, are still broad and ambiguous and will require much more critical thinking before they can be implemented effectively...
...fruition when a group of two to four players work in conjunction to overcome tough situations—combining spells, trading items and taking shots in combat. Without them, the game suffers noticeably. The device normally carried by one player, which forces the group to stay within its sphere (thus fostering a sense of togetherness), is a complete nuisance in single player mode. Spell and item combinations become tedious when performed alone. There’s little plot to speak of, providing enough to explain your purpose of being there and leaving the rest up to the human element. Everything...
...cannot be so cavalier about losing a day’s wages. On the other hand, American labor movements from the big national unions down to Harvard’s own Progressive Student Labor Movement have historically been dominated by men, leaving women wondering whether labor activism is a sphere in which they are even welcome. Overlooked by feminists whose objectives are more cultural than economic, overlooked by union organizers who historically downplay gendered issues like sexual harassment and the glass ceiling, working women have been left in the lurch more than once. And more than once, they have taken...
Having written elaborate treatises on philosophy, social theory and the nature of communication--even his dissertation on the rise of "the public sphere" transformed media studies into a hardheaded discipline--he regularly takes to European Op-Ed pages with lucidity and passion. A man of the left who rose from the ruins of Nazi Germany and attempted to reconstruct Marxism on a reasoned and liberal basis, he was never sentimental about communism. Nor did he fall into the trap of thinking that the cold war was a plot perpetrated malevolently and unilaterally...