Word: reconnected
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...eight long years of war, creating not just a new generation of veterans, but a new generation of leaders," Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says in a forward to the study. "This report is evidence that veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are ready to reconnect to their communities; they just don't have access to our knowledge of all the pathways...
...company decided to publicize the policy because of a backlash caused by a new version of the site's homepage that was rolled out on Oct. 23, which includes automatically generated "suggestions" of people to "reconnect" with. Within days of the launch, Twitter users and bloggers from across the Web complained that some of these suggestions were for friends who had died. "Would that I could," complained a user on Twitter before ending her tweet with the hash tag #MassiveFacebookFail. (See "Five Facebook No-Nos for Divorcing Couples...
...Question Time ate itself, turning into a debate about Question Time. The real issue has never been whether Griffin and his ilk should be allowed to join the show's panel. The fundamental problem is how the mainstream parties can reconnect with the electorate and assuage their fury. With British parliamentary elections due by June 2010, party tacticians may be tempted to borrow from the BNP's populist playbook, talking tough on immigration and integration. Such rhetoric often proves a vote winner. But exploiting voters' discontent can simply stoke it. Until mainstream parties figure out how to earn back public...
This new initiative aims to reconnect students with the UC by becoming more involved with house life. The legislation will also allow the UC to receive feedback from HoCos and be more involved in students’ lives. A dialogue between the two student bodies will help fortify ties between the UC and its constituents, making student concerns better heard. This will also dovetail well with the UC’s new efforts to acquire more data on different topics concerning student life in the form of surveys and polls, which were also set forth in the recent legislation...
...returned to India this past summer, four years after my first, fleeting glance at a Varma painting, in a cliched attempt to reconnect with my roots. (The journey of self-discovery included a trip to the Government Museum.) At the same time, New York Times columnist and similarly second-generation immigrant Anand Giridharadas was completing a four-year tour of the country. Determined to steal my thunder, Giridharadas wrote about a transformation of the Indian population’s psyche. “They don’t crave our mayonnaise and khakis anymore... Indian accents are now cooler than...