The well functions as a center of gravity, focusing attention on the paper's nerve center.
The Eagles Mere Athletic Association runs a summer program of sports and activities for children, and there are musical performances, mostly classical and jazz, in the David A. Dewire Center, a community meeting place that also functions as a center for teenagers.
To get a sense of that, one only has to wander over to the Beirut Souks, which had functioned as a center of commerce at least since the time of the ancient Phoenicians.
Mathis's relationship with Valentino was closely connected with her participation in actress Alla Nazimova's "8080 club," a social circle that included both Valentino and Rambova and that functioned as a center of lesbian life in Hollywood during the early 1920s (Lambert 1997, 218).
"The goal is for the Parrish to really function as a center for cultural engagement for the whole East End," Terrie Sultan, the museum's director, said as she toured the building with a visitor a few days before its opening on Nov. 10.
After the Soviet war in Afghanistan ended in 1989, the mosque continued to function as a center for radical Islamic learning and housed several thousand male and female students in adjacent seminaries.
Further electron microscopy studies confirm MgO functioning as a scattering center at the grain boundaries of the material.
American officers have said soldiers from the Stryker Brigade invaded Tal Afar because it was functioning as a smuggling center for non-Iraqi insurgents.
Functioning as a network, the global centers encourage teaching and research that require working across disciplinary boundaries, having a presence in multiple regions, and engaging non-Columbia experts and scholars from those regions.
It also functions as a detention center for north-bound migrants intercepted at sea.
The Yale MRRC functions as a cost center for investigators from both the main campus and the medical school.
