Word: normalization
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...Speaking to a TIME reporter just seconds before a phone call from Oslo to tell him he had won the Nobel Prize, Yunus, 66, explained that the revolution behind microcredit is the way it upends normal notions of banking. "Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor," he said. "All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out." In his Nobel speech, Yunus made clear his belief that access to credit ought to be a basic human right, and advocated the acceptance of "social businesses"-organizations that are self-sustaining...
...philosophy of general education, and they should teach their classes within a department instead. Professors will not be able to simply add a final exam in order to join general education; they will have to tailor their courses to adhere to a new philosophy of contemporary relevance to a normal citizen. But the Faculty’s most recent discussions, and last week’s alterations to the Preliminary Report by the Task Force on General Education, show an increasing disregard for the guiding philosophy of the new “Core” and an undue focus...
...completely unironic and unfunny. No, really. Don’t wait for the joke, because it’s not coming. I just really loved the couture gown that bad boy contestant Jeffrey made out of yellow cotton plaid in Paris. 2. Street Safari. Though it’s normal for collections to have irredeemably stupid names, the flip side of appellations like “Street Safari” is that the clothes presented usually relate to such themes tangentially if at all. Yet Michael’s display in the final episode proved that—even...
...don’t want people treating you differently just because you deliver bread to Tom Cruise,” says blockmate L. Tenjiwe Moyana ’07. And she doesn’t—Poilâne tries to live as close to a normal life as she can manage. “There’s no reason for me to put a label on my forehead and say ‘Hey, I run a company,’” she says. “But at the same time...
...candidates, who are both Crimson editorial editors, said they looked forward to their lives returning to normal now that the campaign was over...