Word: insularity
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...recruitment to the NFL has long been a problem for Ivy League football players. With such an insular schedule—having only three non-conference games against Lafayette, Lehigh, and Holy Cross—Harvard football players are not generally exposed to the same level of play as other Division 1 teams in, say, the SEC or the Pac 10. As such, NFL scouts have a difficult time assessing a player’s NFL potential with such a limited view...
...regime change” on this issue would not confine itself to our borders. Such a reform would also signal to the entire globe a change in the attitude of America’s foreign policy. An obsession with “Homeland Security” projects an insular view of American responsibility to the world, and abandoning the term would rightly project a national quest to seek a more reasoned—rather than fanatical—balance between short-term security interests and longer run diplomatic goals.To do away with the department itself is not an option; America...
...Academy membership, which now numbers about 5,800, is by definition insular and aging. It takes a while to build a career, in the movie business like anywhere else, and by the time film folk become members of the Academy, they are usually much older than the people they are making their movies for. The advanced average age of the voters--and the gradual conservatizing of their tastes--is one explanation for the films they give prizes to. They not only wouldn't give an Oscar to, say, a Judd Apatow film but probably haven't seen...
...more prolific than Kirino, although only one previous work has been translated into English. That's The Hunter, a fetching police procedural that follows Detective Takako Otomichi as she struggles to prove her mettle and earn the respect of her loutish male counterparts in the Tokyo police force's insular Criminal Affairs Division. The whodunit won Nonami the 1996 Naoki Prize, awarded for general literary excellence and nabbed in subsequent years by Kirino and fellow mystery writer Miyabe Miyuki, proving that all three women write with rather more virtuosity than the average potboiler hack...
...prediction would have once been laughable. After all, North and South Korea are still technically at war, and in the autumn of 2006 Pyongyang's insular regime defied the world by testing a nuclear bomb. But since February 2007, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il struck a deal with the U.S., Japan, Russia, China and South Korea to begin dismantling his nuclear program in exchange for aid and normalized relations with Washington, there has been a burst of cooperation between the two Koreas. In mid-December, a direct rail link opened between Seoul and the Kaesong Industrial Complex across...