Word: symbolics
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...simple, but elegant structure has a profound effect on Yale undergrads, even from the first year. “The Women’s Table is a subtle, but truly significant symbol of women’s rise to equal opportunity. Its location at the center of our campus, a leading institution, is a testament, not only to women’s tremendous gains in the world, but shows Yale’s progressive commitment to diversity and equality,” says Allyson M. Goldberg, ’08, of Yale College...
Excessive? Maybe. But I was rewarded with my instructor’s comments in the margins: “Good!” next to the symbol of the sun which is not available in any standard font. “Nice sketch” next to the Illustrator graphic of a sketch of the equipment setup. “Good!” again next to the PostScript-generated graph that is far fancier than anything Excel could make. “Well laid out!” as a general comment at the end of the report, right...
...consensus over which leaders will fill the formal positions of Yasser Arafat, who died early Thursday in Paris. But consensus over the way forward will remain as elusive as it has been for the past decade. It is a measure of Arafat?s unique status as a national symbol that despite that absence of consensus, Palestinian leaders ranging from moderate liberals such as Hanan Ashrawi to the hard-eyed bombers of Hamas have concurred on the role of the aging revolutionary, who spent his last three years living under virtual house arrest at the Ramallah compound where his organization...
...Israel's hands, Arafat became the first non-head of government to address the UN General Assembly, and the Arab League anointed the PLO "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," formally transferring responsibility for Palestinian fate into Palestinian hands. And if Arafat's personage became the symbol of this new nationalist voice suddenly recognized in the Arab world as the revolutionary head of state of a stateless people, his mystique was burnished by his uncanny ability to beat the odds...
...past four years. They will promote compromise as a means of completing Arafat's mission of creating a Palestinian state. But the grassroots operatives of not only Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but also of Fatah itself are in no mood to compromise, and they will proclaim Arafat the very symbol of their unshakable defiance...