AMONG the heirloom antiques that Bronson Van Wyck, the Manhattan party planner, keeps in his cavernous Flatiron district apartment is a giant map of England from the 1930s, on which each social engagement of King George VI was meticulously plotted.
Now, as the engagement on which they thought they were embarking stalls, their personal animosities take over.
Diamond may well see in the extraordinary response of the rich world to those countries shattered by the Indian Ocean tsunami precisely the kind of empathy and engagement on which our ability to avoid ecological collapse will surely depend.
The course of active engagement on which the President has embarked is in the nation's interest for three reasons.
Somewhere between the blunt end and the sharp end, the model of participative engagement on which SPI1 was based had got rather lost, at least in relation to medical wards.
His co-chairing in 2004 of an independent task force on Iran, which recommended engagement rather than confrontation, has tipped his hand on a key issue.
Despite these positive indications of attitudinal change, rigorous evidence on the extent to which male engagement programmes can shift behaviours and social norms is less conclusive (Fulu, Kerr-Wilson, and Lang 2014; Jewkes, Flood, and Lang 2014).
It also protects much of the business on the Net, which involves engagement with regular people.
From the first year on, students remain focused on one discipline, which fosters both critical engagement and expertise within that mode of inquiry.
Cotes wrote a report on the engagement, which he sent to the Admiralty from captivity in Gisors, which the French authorities intercepted and delayed, with the result that the first news of Thames' fate did not arrive in Britain until 7 May 1794.
Research on effective afterschool programs shows that the focus on student engagement, which keeps children coming after school, increases attendance in the regular school day.
