Word: transcendency
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...this is a day to transcend the ordinary, if it is a rare moment when we gather not just as Harvard, but with a wider world of scholarship, teaching and learning, it is a time to reflect on what Harvard and institutions like it mean in this first decade of the 21st century...
...Such a core, through its structure and content, cultivates, among other things, the virtues of accurate reading and informed argument. These virtues transcend partisan differences and will serve students well not only inside and out of the classroom but in life beyond the campus...
...integrating neo-conservative ideas into the college curriculum—and I see this study...as a political effort designed to energize such reforms,” Neil Gross, associate professor of sociology at Harvard, wrote in an e-mail. But Andrews said that the goals of the survey transcend any ideological lines...
...featuring a helipad and underwater restaurant, this opulent glass palace, which opened in 1999, has 1,800-sq.-ft. (170 sq m) rooms that start at $1,000 a night. Now it's time for one-upmanship, as hoteliers and entrepreneurs race to build ever more exotic getaways that transcend mere luxury stock. Investors have greenlighted more than 30 other super-high-end projects in the past three years, according to lodging consultant Bjorn Hanson of PriceWaterhouse Coopers. The challenge? "It's about creating a luxury that is truly designed around the individual's needs," says Horst Schulze, former president...
...AmeriCorps, John McCain, has since become a devout supporter. "National service is an issue that has been largely identified with the Democratic Party and the left of the political spectrum," McCain wrote in a 2001 Washington Monthly essay. "That is unfortunate, because duty, honor and country are values that transcend ideology...National service is a crucial means of making our patriotism real, to the benefit of both ourselves and our country...