Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that now it's even more complicated to answer the question, 'where are you from?' because now I'm an American." Asani says. "So now I have this weird identity: African-Asian-American. The categories have so broken down that I wonder if it's at all meaningful to use these labels...
...studying and imitating these, the mystic could progress ever closer to their source. Sixteenth century master Isaac Luria added a gloss on Creation: God, having graciously receded to make room, channeled a ray of light into the resulting void through mystic vessels. Some of them shattered--the world became broken--and fallen sparks of the eternal were trapped in every aspect of our mundane existence. It is every human's duty, through good works, prayer and mystical contemplation, to raise the sparks back up to the Godhead and repair the world. In the 18th century, the reformer Ba'al Shem...
...baby. You can give excuses for this behavior, but it is still murder. No one can imagine what she was thinking--I wish I could understand it. It is nothing a normal person would do. And it was not a one-time event. She is also responsible for his broken arm. It makes me wonder what else she did to him that didn't leave a mark. This was no accident--a baby who is not ambulatory, who is not walking--there's no other way for him to break...
...high school's football team currently practices on the Cambridge Common, which one community member described as "a broken leg waiting to happen...
...doubts begin with the two strongest returning swimmers from last season, sophomores Jane Fayer and Maura Costin. Both are out of the water for now--Fayer is nursing a broken toe and Costin is battling muscle problems in her neck and back which plagued her all of last year...