Word: complexity
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...small village nestled in the rocky hills of southeastern Tunisia in north Africa. Over the centuries, the town's Berber settlers developed an ingeniously simple way of beating the withering summer sun and cold winter winds. They fashion a village of pit houses, huge craters disguising a complex array of caves used as houses, granaries, and "barns...
Dorm life for most college kids is a study in spartan simplicity. Not for the 270 or so lucky University of Southern California students who, unable to find campus housing, have been temporarily stashed in the fashionable Promenade Towers apartment complex three miles away. Housed two to a room in furnished apartments for $315 a month per student, the undergrads enjoy valet parking, a 24-hour switchboard, a health club, swimming pool, dry cleaner and market. "Just what we needed," exults U.S.C. Housing Director William Thompson...
Immediately after the cafeteria blast, about 1,000 people were evacuated from the department store, which is in the shopping complex of La Defense, west of ^ Paris. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua said that police were "actively seeking" a young man with curly black hair who had been seen fleeing the area. The post office bomb earlier in the week exploded only 165 yards from an office used by French Premier and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, killing a female postal worker. Chirac rushed to the scene from a meeting and later declared war on "this leprosy of modern times." President Francois...
...Kiely plan was rebuffed because Harvard wants the whole parcel for itself. Citing the Harvard Corporation's supposed reluctance to fund a community-owned project in the Square, President Derek C. Bok himself brushed off the unique plan to convert this property into some sort of mixed-income housing complex with local, state and federal funding. Ironically, the St. Paul's parking lot stands in the midst of a neighborhood in which Harvard has destroyed more than 70 homes in the last 40 years to make way for dormitories...
Tutu plays a complex role in the South African freedom struggle. He does not have a huge political following, nothing comparable to that of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader, or Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the 6 million-member Zulu tribe. Tutu calls himself an "interim leader," saying that he would be less important if Mandela and others were released from prison. The archbishop is most popular among the small group of educated, middle-class blacks, but he has proved to be effective in calming angry crowds in the black townships...