Word: tribalistic
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This is not the only shortcoming of the Faculty that the next president must be willing to address. The departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are marked by tribalist tendencies, hampering their willingness to collaborate with each other and with the University’s professional schools. Harvard’s research and scholarship add invaluably to the greater knowledge, skills, and decision-making of mankind, but in many cases individual departments and schools can accomplish more through interdisciplinary efforts. Already, we see some fruits of efforts to cross-pollinate the University. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...creating a ring linking the areas outside Boston's downtown area, the Ring's supporters hope to break down the "tribalist" nature of Boston's neighborhoods, according to Bob Culver, a former T administrator who was one of the conference's organizers...
...will support the political program of the MPLA," Bonnie A. Breen of the Spartacus Youth League said, rising in an aisle, her voice quavering with intensity. "But the program of the MPLA will mean the smashing of workers' movements in a post-independence period" and also "tribalist genocide." As others called for her to sit down, she asked stridently, "Will we support that...
...whose last king died in 1962, Roberto's contacts with African nationalists and socialists such as Fanon and Lumumba enabled him to convince his compatriots to broaden their scope to the liberation of the whole of Angola and to renounce tribalism officially. The FNLA, who now welcome the anti-tribalist influence of the Portugese occupation, claim that there is only one FNLA minister who speaks the Bakongo language, and have attracted to their ranks Daniel Chipenda, a pro-Maoist Ovimbundu from the southeast who split from the MPLA last year with 3000 men. But they have previously failed in efforts...
...Britain (he spent a year at Oxford), Mboya had no use for Soviet and Chinese efforts to gain a foothold in Kenya. It was on that issue that Mboya and his principal political enemy, Oginga Odinga, collided. Odinga, a Luo like Mboya, is an emotional, radical tribalist with Communist leanings and support. Mboya helped oust Odinga as Vice President...