Word: breakdown
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "The breakdown of families and the disregard of moral values are at the very root of our economic woes...
...situation here at Harvard is a good example of the manner in which Latinos are ignored. We are not heard in the symphony of "Harvard diversity." For example, a recent statistics project covered by The Crimson, which made an attempt to determine the racial breakdown of Harvard housing, disregarded Latinos; this adds to our invisibility on campus. Lack of institutional support leads to an environment where students on campus do not even remember us when it comes time to study the effects of randomization on the racial balance in the Harvard houses...
...years ago, if you got around much in the clubs and artists' spaces of downtown Manhattan, you might have found yourself at one of Nan Goldin's slide shows. Tattooed loveboys, innocents abroad, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown--in her slides they drank and smoked and coupled, or just deployed themselves gravely across the staging grounds of East Village life. Goldin had been taking pictures of herself and her friends since the early 1970s, first around Boston, where she was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then in the lofts and hangouts...
...Brien pointed to the breakdown of both the nuclear and extended family as the number one problem facing youth...
SACRAMENTO: The California Department of Motor Vehicles is blocking Chrysler from resupplying the state with new Chrysler cars for 45 days after dealers resold 116 "lemons" to California drivers. The breakdown-prone cars were bought back from unhappy drivers and resold by dealers after some repair work but without, state officials charge, properly disclosing that the cars had had previous problems or giving out the correct warranties. Chrysler will appeal the decision, which may indefinately delay the ban on the corporation restocking dealerships with vehicles. "This ruling is a lemon the size of the Yellow Submarine," says TIME's William...