Word: apartness
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...looked around and saw my leg bleeding and my neighbor lying dead on the floor, torn apart. I saw a minibus full of children on fire." AMIN DINAR, an Iraqi wounded in one of five suicide bombings in Basra last Wednesday that killed...
...witnessed in 1988, when the Burmese military shot and jailed thousands of demonstrators. The reaction this time?nothing, not a peep of protest?reflects how ruthlessly the Burmese junta has terrorized its own people. Washington's sanctions have boosted morale among Burma's embattled democrats, but they promise little apart from further poverty and desperation in a country ravaged by military greed and incompetence. The military is now a state within a state, with the best housing, education and healthcare reserved for soldiers and their families...
...Lexi Tuddenham ’04) swayed in tree-like fashion to Frou Frou’s “Let Go.” At first the dancers who also choreographed the piece were attached together and swayed as one body, which proceeded to break apart and the dancers scattered erratically across the stage. At times the patterns didn’t match the tone of the music adequately and the arm work would not have suffered from a little less flailing, yet overall the energy was high and the dancers seemed enthralled by their own creation...
...them from one of the most fertile and picturesque parts of their beloved homeland. Cyprus has been keeping international negotiators busy since an Athens-backed coup triggered the invasion of the northern part of the island by Turkish troops in 1974. Today, U.N. peacekeepers still keep the two sides apart along a fortified "green line" that runs the width of the island, trimmed with sandbags and razor wire. The Annan plan is the most ambitious effort to find a solution so far: a 9,000-plus-page tome that would establish a Swiss-style "United Cyprus Republic" in which...
...scope and narrative demands of a full-length motion picture meant his first big-screen venture would inevitably be tougher - it was critically panned, even by him. "I had issues with it," Gondry says of Human Nature, about a man raised as an ape. He declines to elaborate, apart from saying the Kaufman-written film, starring Patricia Arquette and Tim Robbins, "was a little hard to get into." Few people tried - it grossed only $700,000 at the U.S. box office. Gondry turned a bad situation into an opportunity for growth by filling a 40-page notebook with three neat...