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...Silk Road that the project takes its name from refers to an ancient trade route, which flourished around the first century B.C. The Silk Road was an important nexus of cultural exchange—Buddhism was carried into China through travellers on the road, while lutes from Persia were brought to Japan and Chinese gongs to Europe...
...website is a launching pad and nexus of resources for both individual students and for student groups,” Chadbourne said...
...notoriously secretive Harvard Corporation, a seven-member board at the University’s nexus of power, is the only governing body which could ultimately unseat Summers, who is himself a member of the Corporation...
...away with saying outrageous things is that the rest of the [academic] community doesn’t have access to the relevant knowledge and research,” said Alice Jardine, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS). WGS, the logical nexus for this scholarship, is deprived of the adequate resources to study and spread knowledge about the sources of sex differences...
Greenberg, the organization’s second female president in its 60 years wrote in an e-mail that Hillel is “the nexus and catalyst for Jewish life on campus.” Anna M. Solomon-Schwartz ’06 was elected Hillel’s first female president last February...