Word: amissions
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...countless many blasphemies that pass nearly without comment—like a depiction of Mary masturbating for a Harvard course’s final project, which was then posted online—when the comparable imagery in the Muslim world would have elicited quite the tizzy fit.There is something amiss in the decidedly pre-modern Muslim world, and it’s being overlooked by Harvard. Despite our international pretensions, we remain wholly obsessed with America, the beautiful scapegoat. A focus on America does make sense. How America conducts the war on terror is indeed an important issue that itself...
...ramblings one finds on “Ease Down the Road.” The very next song, a dirge-like take on Springsteen’s anthemic ‘Thunder Road,’ is sung with a more familiar half-smiling sorrow, but something still seems amiss. With the image of Springsteen in mind, fist pumping and voice rising, the song carries a unique ironic appeal, but on its own it seems constrained and impotent, as if forced on the musicians by someone else. The album has its moments, however, and they tend to be those that...
...questions. But it would be nice if the folks that Wall Street serves made out too-not like bandits, but like the hard-working and trusting investors that most of them are. The gut-wrenching comparison that best illustrates that something may be amiss: in 2005, the average diversified stock fund returned 6.7%; bond investors gained under 1%; the average stock rose just 3%, according to market tracker Lipper. Those seriously sub-par returns don't square with a record Wall Street payday...
...better off not knowing exactly what is amiss at the exclusive English private school Hailsham. But something is definitely off. The teachers are afraid of the students. The students are afraid of the forest. And nobody wants to put into words just what exactly is going on here. Set in a creepy alterna-England, Never Let Me Go is a horror novel, but it's less about fear than it is about a deep, existential sadness that the world is such a horrifying place. By the time you learn the secret it's much too late: you've been drawn...
...it’s your boyfriend’s feelings toward you that have you stumped, even if there is not “empirical evidence” that something is amiss, you should confront him because your feelings are genuine and important...