Word: writs
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Harvard is known for its breadth of investments; BusinessWeek last month called the management company’s strategy “diversification writ large.” But the magazine noted that the University’s money managers can still make “huge bets,” like a commodities investment of over $2 billion in timber, or around one tenth of the total endowment...
...numbers in swing states such as Arkansas, Michigan, Ohio and Oregon. It appears that these “values” voters may well have handed George W. Bush the election, but at a cost that transcends a single political victory. The constitutions of 11 states now bear the writ of discrimination, formalized in parchment, despite the fact that gay marriage was unlikely to be made legal in those states in the foreseeable future...
...convinced themselves it was unwise to respond to the Swifties' ads, which were running in only three states and were funded by a longtime Bush donor, because a rebuttal would serve to amplify the phony charges. And the advisers were determined to stay upbeat, in keeping with the holy writ of the focus groups that kept saying how distasteful they found negative campaigning. So when a jolt finally forced Kerry to face reality, it didn't come from any of his high-priced consultants and pollsters. The truth was delivered by men Kerry didn't even know, folks who have...
...sterile town, brimming with haughty WASPs, oozing with pretension, a Banana Republic advertisement writ large. Nassau Street, the primary artery bordering the college, stripped of all vivacity, home to a pancake house, an ATM and little else. The university, a third-wheel in a two-school rivalry, pitifully attempting to insert itself into a game like The Game, a little sister trying to finagle her way into her older brothers’ wrestling match, sent to her room crying with nothing more than a black...
...what our newly linked world more precisely resembles is a global city, Bombay?or Los Angeles?writ large. Thou-sands of tribes assemble in a single space, but there is no common ground for them and they have no common values. Nor is there any kind of organizing intelligence to make sense or order of the masses. The pace of the village is that of a bullock cart, or a folk song; the rhythm of the city is that of an MTV video, broken up, superaccelerated, posthuman. If it takes a village to raise a child, as Hillary Clinton...