Word: phenomenon
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...longer I spent with the UMass tailgaters, the more I became convinced that Harvard could replicate this phenomenon...
...worth speculating how the well-documented phenomenon of Ostalgie - nostalgia for the former communist state - will fare in these cities during what will be a reflective few weeks. As memories of the old regime fade, there has naturally been an attempt to re-evaluate the D.D.R.'s legacy. In recent years, films like 2003's Good Bye Lenin!, a wry telling of reunification's effects on an East German family, have captured the imaginations of fashionable urbanites. Others have professed an occasionally ironic love for old East German aesthetics - communist-era branding, old Wartburg and Trabant cars, and vintage Praktika...
...China continues to open up, this kind of phenomenon will become ever more prevalent," says David Zweig, a professor of humanities and social sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "This is part of the process of internationalization, but we can only hope that Chinese people, including netizens and the people whose views tend towards extremism, can come to accept that there are many mixed-race people, both in China and worldwide...
...just donate their time.” Harvard Sociology lecturer David L. Ager has more hope for entrepreneurial efforts to help students of low socioeconomic status achieve equal opportunities. “It really is exciting to see more and more students involved in the macro-social phenomenon of putting their intellect toward helping the community,” he said, adding that proper funding and a sound business model created in clever and innovative ways would allow such a program to be sustainable. McConnell and Gardner are confident in Climbing Ivy’s ability to survive...
...heard that you’ve decided to make a movie about Facebook. Specifically, about how the social networking site grew from a little project hatched by a vindictive, fame-whoring computer genius into a global phenomenon with over 300 million active users...