Word: vibrant
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...hailed as the little nation that could. The euphoria lasted long enough for World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz to visit Dili last year and proclaim: "It really is a remarkable story. In just a few years, the people of [East Timor] have built a functioning economy and a vibrant democracy from the ashes and destruction...
...moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable to deal with the looming, urgent issue of the day. Insurgents practicing...
DIED. Arthur Schlesinger, 89, vibrant, unabashedly liberal presidential historian who became a player in his own area of scholarship as a special White House assistant to his friend John F. Kennedy; in New York City. A bow-tied intellectual and dedicated Washington partygoer, he drew fire from critics who said he perpetuated the image of Camelot while gliding over Kennedy's political and personal missteps. Still, his more than 20 books, on subjects from F.D.R. to Nixon, influenced political debate for decades and won him two Pulitzer Prizes: the first, at age 28, for his fresh take on Andrew Jackson...
...modest ways Allston/Brighton offers quite a lot to such a project—a solid, stable, working people’s neighborhood, home to many groups and cultures, a slice of the world more vibrant and real than much of what’s left in 02138. I like to picture a future Allston with some recherché café, a Pamplona or a Paradiso, right down the street from our neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts—now that’s true diversity...
...public resources, Harvard’s expanded campus will bring an estimated 14,000 to 15,000 jobs to the area by the time it is completed and bolster the local economy. It is in the local community’s interest for Harvard to succeed in creating a vibrant campus and community in Allston...