Definition: foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action (from Merriam-Webster).
Example: trying to recycle in Abu Dhabi.
Recycling in Abu Dhabi involves taking this …
driving to our local Spinney’s and putting it in bins that look like this …
and hoping it all doesn’t just get dumped together into bins that look like this …
Knowing, I think, that I’d never be able to keep up a full journal, I decided to kill two birds with one stone: I would write letters and keep carbon copies of them in the journal.
Thirty-five years ago today, I embarked a trip around the world.
Among some of my faculty colleagues in New York, NYU Abu Dhabi and the recreation of NYU as a Global Network University remain controversial, if not downright undesirable, projects. Some of my colleagues have gone so far as to engage in e-mail diatribes against those...
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