Word: bounds
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...That is bound to strike some as America bashing; the attempts to flesh out terrorists, excuse making. But making them human shows us they are not superhuman: they make mistakes, they get emotional, they have doubts. Each of them may, at some point, be stopped. In Paradise Now, from Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, Said (Kais Nashif) seems like an ordinary slacker auto mechanic until he is chosen to undertake a suicide bombing, which he volunteered for long before. Said comes across not as a news-article composite but as a believable, mixed-up young...
Amidst forced whispers, 10 young women watched as these words were penned in ink on the first page of a leather-bound record book. Pledging fidelity, they signed their names. On May 28, 1898, Radcliffe’s first and only secret society was born...
Consider Crimson hockey from 1965, since that’s how far back the bound volumes of media guides can take us. Those 41 seasons yielded 42 captains, 34 of whom hailed from Massachusetts, Minnesota or Canada...
...state of Israel.” Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 elicited murmurs of appreciation when he questioned Wisse’s separation of the Jewish future from that of humanity. “I learned growing up that the freedom of Jewish people is bound up in the freedom of all people,” said Gould-Wartofsky, a member of the Progressive Jewish Alliance. “I’m wondering where your tradition comes from because that’s not my Jewish tradition.” Organizers of the event appeared...
...struggle. Just as only a longtime anticommunist like Richard Nixon could convincingly make the opening to China, so only men with the longevity in their conflicts of Rabin, Arafat, De Klerk and Mandela had the credibility to make peace. None of the men much liked his partner. They were bound together, two by two, as if in an impossible combination: they became each other's steptwins. Their negotiations at times resembled nothing so much as the conflict they were trying to resolve. Mandela and De Klerk were at each other's throats even as they accepted the Nobel Peace Prize...