Word: intersection
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...Harvard?” They invariably had just read about former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 or how everyone gets honors; they were more interested in the media issues than my own experience. Very few times did the media stories intersect with my own life, and so I was often forced to answer, “Fine...
...most scientists, God is irrelevant. And that is a very good thing. When science and religion intersect, an unseemly brawl (Galileo and the Church) or a synthesis that is an intellectual train wreck (creationism and “intelligent design theory”) usually result...
...other end of the spectrum was the brooding, unsettling realism of Lou Ye’s Suzhou River, a tale of doubled romances which eventually intersect and is startlingly reminiscent of the French New Wave in its visceral vision and edgy production. The work nonetheless captures the raw beauty of Shanghai: its sordid, lurid nightlife, its dissolute youth, its sprawling chaos...
...sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia's 1997 economic crisis. "The bomb blast in Bali hurts a situation that...
Unlike the other institutes for advanced study, Radcliffe does not limit itself to one particular area of expertise. Creative arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences intersect within the Institute...