Word: bounds
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...none of this turns A Christmas Tale into a farce. Desplechin is aware of the humorous cross-currents in the film, but he's not out to exploit them. He's a more serious filmmaker than that, interested in exploring the wayward, occasionally inexplicable tensions of a group bound together more by the accidents of birth than by any true communality of interests. Families are supposed to love one another - that's the social convention. But lots of times they don't. They just make do, with tension and guilt...
...Beijing Bound. If you're headed to China to do business, Aloft, the affordable hotel geared to the Gen Y generation - with lobbies designed expressly for hanging out, socializing and working - has opened its first overseas outpost in Beijing. (See 10 things to do in Beijing.) Tower 2 No. 25, Yuanda Road, Haidian District, Beijing...
...Crimson has better playmakers on offense and better athletes on defense than the Quakers, but with Harvard’s woeful 1-12 record in its last 13 games in Philadelphia, history dictates that something is bound to go wrong for the team. As Crimson writer Brad Hinshelwood pointed out in his column yesterday, Harvard can’t afford to rely just on its core strengths, but must be sharp around the edges as well...
...gradually bound to be a more common phenomenon,” he said, “but it is the last domino to fall...
...come from other countries, some of us live in the rural South while others live in the urban North. The thing that has really united us is a sense of being shut out from certain opportunities. No matter where we lived or how we behaved, we were all bound by the knowledge that there were things we couldn’t do and places we couldn’t go, all because of the color of our skin. It was a bit like being stuck together in a crowded room with no doors. I cannot say that Barack Obama...