Both tuneful and bracing, a kind of amalgam of Bizet's "Carmen" and Berg's "Wozzeck," "Porgy and Bess" is at the center of issues that continue to vex us: race, for one thing, and the confusion of genres.
The World Bank provides billions of dollars in development funds to the poorest countries and is also at the center of issues such as climate change, rebuilding countries emerging from conflict and recently the transitions to democracy in Tunisia and Egypt.
Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo stands in the center of Issue Project Room's cavernous performance space in Brooklyn, swinging his guitar through the air and towards the audience.
Unlike in the American system, in which appeals center on issues of law, not fact, in the Italian system, appeals are automatic and defendants can ask to retry the entire case in a first round of appeals.
(Clayton's marital fights, centering on issues of religion and freedom of conscience, and meant to represent one of the novel's claims to genuine pith, read like transcripts from "Crossfire").
Most of what we hear in the media regarding the "digital divide" and issues of digital equity have been centered on issues of physical access: Are computers readily accessible, available, and up-to-date?
As radiologists (who are squarely in the center of these issues) face this future, they should take a leadership stance, help create effective accountable care systems, and set high aims for improvement.
"The environmental movement has expanded to understand that people are at the center of these issues," Mr. Pattison says.
Mr. Jones was able to put himself at the center of those issues by using the news lull of summer and the demands of a 24-hour news cycle to promote his anti-Islam cause.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the former Harvard law professor who is suddenly Massachusetts's senior senator as a freshman, has been at the center of two issues that will be sharply debated within the Democratic Party heading into 2016.
The acceptance or rejection of singular propositions lies at the center of many issues in semantics, the philosophy of language and mind, and metaphysics.
