Word: insularity
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...malcontents, such a measure has an entirely different meaning in Japan. Ostensibly focused only on terrorism, in Japan the law is really about xenophobia. An ethnically homogeneous island-country that has been virtually cut off from the outside world for centuries at a time, Japan is a relatively insular place. Despite slight regional variations in dialect, climate, and food, it often exudes the sense of being one large, middle-class neighborhood, comfortably indifferent to what goes on outside its precincts. As one can imagine, Japan has not always received foreigners with particular ease or enthusiasm. The country has some...
...outsiders,” such as people outside the UC. In 2005, Riley resigned from her position as representative. Riley was disgusted with the “Ivory Tower” image of the council. “Sometimes the UC becomes a little too insular,” Riley says, “and it doesn’t reach out appropriately to student groups and students who sometimes know the issues better than the representatives themselves. It really bugged me.” Riley felt that in her position as one of many representatives, it would be impossible...
SELECTED. Tony Snow, 50, as White House press secretary; in Washington. A conservative commentator for Fox News, Snow has occasionally criticized President George W. Bush's Administration and once called Bush "something of an embarrassment." Analysts say he could bring fresh perspective to a notoriously insular White House, at a time when Bush's popularity rating is near an all-time...
...enough, mainly because most key decision makers--including Bolten, Rove and their staffs--continue to be people who have been in the Bush bubble for six years or more. "Where's the innovation? Where's the perspective?" said a friend of Bush's, who described the staff as so insular that it is hobbled by what he calls the "white-men-can't-jump syndrome"--the inability to soar. So now Bolten must prove to his many constituencies, internal and external, that although he's a veteran of the Bush team, he can still get it off the ground...
Today, the Corporation has come under fire as secretive and insular, but Stone’s colleagues remarked yesterday that he interacted closely with undergraduates at Harvard while serving as a fellow...