Word: vibrant
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...current care system is hospital-centric and physician-centric. We cannot have excellent, coordinated, patient-centered, economical health care without a strong backbone of primary care, and without a vibrant, proud, and joyful nursing workforce. Yet fewer and fewer young people are choosing to go into primary care careers (instead, we are getting an oversupply in specialties like ophthalmology, radiology, anaesthesiology, and dermatology) and the average age of an American nurse is now over 47 years...
...with Iran would completely undermine what is now the Gulf’s best hope for liberal democracy. Iran, though a theocracy, is already a quasi-representative system with competitive though not quite free elections. It contains a youthful, educated, and generally pro-American population and a vibrant civil society, and its clerical leaders are increasingly forced to accommodate to these realities. If Iran is reassured, it could be only a matter of time before a pro-U.S. stance is adopted, and the quest for a now-primarily anti-U.S. nuclear deterrent dropped. True, eroding an entrenched autocracy...
...extremists become the only real independent actors. Russia’s current power structure is unable to free itself of the old paradigm: “to govern is to control and to manipulate.” Open and equal discussion—prerequisites for and results of a vibrant NGO environment—is a sign of weakness in such paradigm. In 2005, the consequences of closing the avenues of legitimate dissent became evident in the capital of the North Caucasian provence of Kabardino-Balkaria. Although most of the local population practices Islam, regional authorities used arrests and beatings...
Celebrity academics like Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson, and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt say that Harvard’s vibrant intellectual atmosphere drew them here...
...Rising,” an upbeat, contemporary lyrical piece, provided a lively and promising beginning for the second half of the evening. Though choreography by Larissa D. Koch ’08 was often a bit too theatrical, the four dancers gave a very cohesive, technically impressive, and vibrant performance. Two pieces from “Don Quixote” followed: “The Dream Scene” and “Kitri Variation.” The group in “The Dream Scene” gave a mostly clean performance in this difficult Marius Petipa-based...