Word: transformationalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Suzman for tea in the lush garden of her Johannesburg home last June. She was, she said, "slowly fading away," with tinnitus in her ears making her head "ring like a church bell." But she was still feisty and outspoken, especially on the ANC. The party had failed to transform the lives of black South Africans, she argued--"The vast majority have been left behind"--while its leader and the likely next President, Jacob Zuma, "just tells people what they want to hear." Not an accusation ever leveled at Suzman...
...think it's going to have an enormous impact. I think that what's going on now is so serious, and I think it hasn't even remotely begun to play out yet. I think that without a second Depression, these issues are powerful and can really transform people's relationships. But I think now, when people's lifestyles and very careers are being threatened, all of these things are going to be in the forefront and wield an even stronger influence. So I'm hoping that this book will help women figure out their own circumstances and make them...
...that societal acceptance will turn into coercion, particularly in a cutthroat, winner-take-all environment. Jessie Klein, an assistant professor of sociology at Adelphi University, says she believes students give in to the pressure to take drugs just to keep up. "It makes more sense to me to transform this pernicious culture rather than discuss whether students should be able to legally take drugs to compete," she says, adding that when minority students take drugs, people call for get-tough policies and crackdowns, but when wealthy, white Ivy Leaguers do it, the discussion shifts to reducing the legal consequences...
...What Suzman found most inexcusable was how the party that was supposed to transform the lives of black South Africans had failed so miserably at its primary task. "There are miles and miles and miles of shantytowns today, many more than before," she said. "No running water, no sewerage, nothing. There are, yes, a handful of extremely rich people whose lives have changed dramatically. But the vast majority have been left behind. Unemployment is 26%. And we have a serious crime problem, and the link is clear: people are getting fed up with this non-delivery of policies, and understandably...
...leaps in the way we use energy to save our species. It's a myth "that we have all the technology we need to solve the energy crisis," Chu told an audience in Las Vegas earlier this year. "I think political will is absolutely necessary, but we need to transform...