Word: concernments
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When John F. Kennedy visited Berlin in June 1963, the Berlin Wall had been standing for only two years. The cold war was settling in for a long freeze. West Berliners were dismayed by the West's seeming lack of concern about their city's partition. It was a time when well-chosen words could change history...
Anxieties about climate change make good weather in winter a cause for concern, as well as for celebration. Climatologists frequently warn against making judgments on the plausibility of global warming based on anecdotal experiences of hot or cold weather, but as I basked in the sunlight of Saturday’s bizarre version of a winter wonderland, I couldn’t help but feel a little nervous. Visions of my family’s Manhattan apartment submerged by the swelling sea ran through my brain...
...easily imagine that there’s a concern that the choice of a woman who in her own right totally deserves to have this job would be perceived as a reactive choice against the Summers comment,” chair of the History department Andrew D. Gordon ’74 says...
...German government said its supplies were secure but that Berlin was watching the developments "with concern" and appealed to Russian and Belarussian authorities to "fulfill their obligations of delivery and transit." Germany depends on the pipeline for one-fifth of its oil imports. Poland receives 50% of its oil from Russia and most of it comes through the pipeline. Warsaw, however, says it has enough oil for 80 days and, if needed, can receive shipments through Baltic ports. Polish newspapers have started calling the controversy "The Russia-Belarus...
...what really motivates my aversion to the marijuana taboo is not a paternalistic concern for people’s health and safety. I truly believe that everyone—but especially wound-up, self-important Harvard students—could benefit from getting high once in a while. While alcohol is boorish and mindless, marijuana is intellectually stimulating, relaxing, and mellow. Alcohol is fun because it makes us less aware of what’s going on, and thus less inhibited, while marijuana makes us hyper-alert, perceptive, and thoughtful. Alcohol is a fantastic social lubricant, but there is nothing...