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...history demands that one be aware of the deeper world as well as the wider. For the period in question, America has been hydroplaning on the present, creating and devouring a culture consisting of relentless ephemera. The intellectual so-called life became deconstructionist game playing, politics became claptrap, "globalization" became internationalism for shoppers. Our superpowerhood fed feelings of omnipotence and self-righteousness (remember the "City on a Hill"?), which in turn created a false sense of immunity. On Sept. 11, airplanes crashed into two cities on a hill...
...coalition, a worldview that incorporates the concerns and interests of important partners in the developing world. And that's something President Bush ought to learn from. Bush's traditional "freedom under attack" and "good vs. evil" themes may play well at home, but they have little resonance in the wider world. And just as President Bush expects more action against terrorism from other countries, so do many of those countries expect more active and responsible global citizenship on the part...
...makes little sense to real people who aren’t cursed with Crimson-tinted tunnel vision. Burk, who has dated more than 20 Harvard students and three professors in the past three years, has always simply assumed these women wanted to be taken downtown and introduced into the wider world of Boston...
...evening, another working dinner with more aid workers. We share our plans, and sometimes our resources. Networking is powerful. (A wider TWISTER board...
Japan is as renowned for its xenophobia as its tea ceremony and flower arrangement, yet just as traditionally its writers desperately strive for a place on the wider literary playing fields abroad. They do so not only because that's where more money and greater fame lie but also because those who achieve translation are inordinately celebrated and esteemed at home. In their eagerness to secure that export seal of cultural approval they often try to style their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since...