Word: wider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Like their characters, many of these artists took on dual identities, says author and comic book historian Didier Pasamonik, a consultant on the exhibit: "There was a kind of diffused anti-Semitism at the time, and it was better to use a good American commercial name to reach the wider public." Even as Robert Kahn had become Bob Kane and Jacob Kurtzberg worked as Jack Kirby, their superheroes reflected some of the identity they were masking, evoking Jewish concepts such as tikkun olam (repairing the world through social action) and legends such as the Golem of Prague, the medieval superhero...
...obscure outside legal and human-rights circles--and hampered by the fact that the U.S. and a number of other countries are not state parties to the court--the ICC has raised its profile in recent months, opening its first two trials against warlords from Congo. It will gain wider public attention with the Nov.2 U.S. release of Darfur Now, a Syriana-style documentary that chronicles Moreno-Ocampo's pursuit of Harun. Appearing at screenings of the film this fall in Toronto and New York, Moreno-Ocampo received standing ovations, not to mention an audience with Brad Pitt and Angelina...
...Restaurants 2008 guide. The price of the average restaurant meal went up 2.3% last year, while the average price at the places that make Zagat's top list went up 3.8%. But if you look at the cities where the very rich live, the dining wealth gap is even wider. In New York City, the price of Zagat's average restaurant meal didn't change at all--up just 0.1%--while at the most expensive 20, it was up 11.1%. In Washington, it's 2.1% vs. 7.6%; Chicago, 3.3% and 6.7%; Atlanta, 3% and 7.8%. If there were a city...
...surely also incumbent upon Expos to hire from a wider variety of academic fields. Preceptors would be able to draw from one another’s disciplinary knowledge and make the program even more responsive to our students’ wide-ranging interests and to professors’ expectations of writing in fields that are not currently represented in our faculty appointments...
...restrict reporting of the case in the U.K. through to its conclusion. According to a story in The Sun of Oct. 30, the royal at the center of the case "is on the brink of going public." A Buckingham Palace source quoted in the paper expressed concerns about the wider damage to the reputation of the royal family and added "the secrecy surrounding the case is simply fuelling it into something...