Word: wideã
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MANHATTAN—They came from far and wide??€”with rolling suitcases and portable e-mail terminals in tow—but they were drawn together by a common desire: to experience the ultimate techno-geek dream. As the hundreds of thousands of attendees of CeBit America 2003 entered the massive glass and steel lobby of the Jacob Javits Conference Center on Manhattan’s West Side, they were accosted by signs and logos of companies from Xerox to Siemens and prompted by convention staff to register at the appropriate bank of LCD panel kiosks...
...committees meant to encourage University-wide??€”as opposed to school-by-school thinking—either withered or have uncertain futures...
...massive increase in the arts has been demonstrated campus-wide??€”from skyrocketing enrollment in extracurricular dance courses (more than 600 Harvard affiliates now take dance classes through the University) to the emergence of new choral and a capella groups (interest in participation has expanded beyond the dozen already on campus). The ever more competitive admissions process has helped fuel this expanding interest in the arts; it is rare to find a Harvard first-year with no artistic background or training. An increasingly well-rounded—and often determined—student body has led to a flurry...
...population. Among the opponents to the war I count many dear friends and colleagues in many countries: they share my sorrow but happily for them not my shame. How is Harvard going to reconcile its mission—that of an institution of higher education, with many ramifications world wide??€”with its new status of war profiteer...