Word: wider
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...multiracial identity is not just limited to student groups, but extends to the courses offered by the College. Harvard's lack of ethnic studies departments, with the exception of the renowned Department of Afro-American Studies, has been often lamented. Yet even more mainstream minority groups have a wider variety of classes to choose from if they wish to explore their unique cultural heritages...
...label, SuperEgo. Magnolia may be the best thing to have happened to sound tracks since Mike Nichols sat down with Simon and Garfunkel and came up with The Graduate. While it's unlikely to put an end to the star-packed sound tracks so popular now, Magnolia should bring wider exposure to a songwriting talent full of the soulfulness that today's commercially obsessed pop so often lacks and so badly needs...
Though Coward, who died in 1973, is intensely beloved by a devoted coterie, the wider audience knows him mostly for his brittle, epigrammatic plays--particularly Private Lives and Blithe Spirit--or for that foolproof cinematic stirrer of the female breast, Brief Encounter. But where his plays and films bear the whiff of a long-gone age, Coward's songs retain their vitality: the frisky list songs that display his wit (Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington) and the achingly tender ballads that reveal his unmatched capacity for genuine sentiment (If Love Were...
...seen as a minimal standard for a living wage. In fact, studies on the local cost of living show just how minimal it is. According to the National Low-Income Housing Commission, a wage of roughly $15 per hour is needed to live in the Boston area. Wider Opportunities for Women also found that in 1997, a living wage for families of varying composition would range from $11 to $18 per hour...
...known. In electing Roosevelt President, Americans turned away from a government by the few and for the few. F.D.R. lifted America out of the depths of the Depression and gave working families the chance to be self-reliant by opening the doors to education, economic opportunity and home ownership wider than ever before. And while making an America that was strong at home, Roosevelt built a consensus for leadership and engagement in the world that still shapes the way the U.S. conducts itself among the family of nations. More than any other person, Roosevelt made this the American century...