Word: begun
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...themselves into, situations of understated but hair-raising peril. In Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta, two druggy friends of an equally druggy American poet living in Mexico want to take him to see a nearby volcano. ?The way,? the poet is told once the trip has begun, ?is to go up the mountain and make it all complete.? In Helping, a man sober for 18 months starts drinking again. He tells his distraught wife that ?this drink I?m having is the only worthwhile thing I?ve done in the last year and a half.? The morning after...
During the past five months, Mobutu's regime has rapidly and spectacularly begun to unravel. In the streets of Kinshasa his opponents have been clamoring for him to step down. In two of Zaire's most remote provinces, long-sputtering secessionist movements have burst into flames. But it is the full-scale rebellion now sweeping across five eastern provinces that seems most likely to bring Mobutu's rule to an abrupt and unceremonious conclusion...
Europe looked to its southeast last week to find civilization vanishing down a sinkhole. Perennially underprivileged Albania suddenly was no longer an organized society but a state of chaos. In the span of one week, what had begun as spontaneous revolts in a few southern cities turned all of the country into a Mad Max movie: children brandishing grenades and automatic rifles; wholesale looting; and frenetic, random gunfire--an utter collapse of civil authority. Foreign nationals were fleeing the country, many by helicopter airlift. Small, sun-washed Albania had become the state of Anarchia...
Despite initial setbacks, the nonprofit ICIC now appears to have begun bridging the cultural gap separating the Harvard Business School's (HBS) leafy Allston campus from the struggling Roxbury start-ups it seeks to help...
...these last few weeks, I have been very encouraged to hear HIS members propose changes. As a result, I have begun thinking about the Harvard Islamic society's goals and practices; I asked some questions at the Interfaith Forum office; and I came to a number of interesting realizations, some of which can apply to any campus religious group...