Word: towardness
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...program to encourage students to consider unconventional career paths. “Something happens when students get to Harvard,” she says. “Students are afraid to acknowledge their unique interests. It isn’t that there’s a stigma on campus toward non-traditional careers. There’s just an absence of validation. If sticking the Harvard name next to a non-traditional career allows students to suddenly take their passions seriously, let’s keep offering these programs.” FUNDING THE FOODThe climate for food appreciation...
...move past the novelty of mashing up Mariah Carey and James Taylor, avoid another descent into nostalgia, and continue the eternal forward march of creation and discovery. Remarkably, in a security-obsessed era typified by Bloombergian, antiseptic New York and Big Brother London, people are leaning more and more toward experimentation and ingenuity. As a result of the commercialization of Disco, too many good ideas aren’t seen to fruition, and with the spread of AIDS in later decades, many of those who could have kept innovating passed. These new artists mark a resurgence in the belief that...
...even before the 2004 decision, Harvard graduate teaching assistants were lukewarm toward unionization, an attitude that may persist even if the decision is reversed...
...future, both Obama and Gates share a belief that there should be less emphasis on military power and more on using diplomacy and foreign aid to bend other nations toward U.S. interests. One thorny question at a time of economic crisis will be how much of the money for that reorientation will have to come from the Pentagon's budget...
While there's no doubt of Zardari's sincerity in his hostility toward the militants, he simply does not call the shots in Pakistan - a fact India's leaders may be more intimately aware of than their American counterparts. The Pakistani president's political weakness is not confined to having to defer to the military in all national security matters; he's had a hard time selling Pakistanis in general on the need to wage war on the extremists. The majority of his fellow citizens oppose cooperation with U.S. efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Even after the Marriott...