Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writing a paper is total effort; it does not just consist of the thought process and actual writing, but also of the labor and exercise involved in overcoming the system of Xeroxing the necessary books. We surmount broken photocopiers, many stairs, long lines, torn money, mean machines and $10 bills to write our opus...
...only one half of the question, and perhaps the less important part of the question at that. The newspapers are very concerned with this half, as is their business. After the who, what and when, come the stabs at why. The New York Times blames the killers' upbringing, the broken homes and (pushing their luck) even the fact that there is nothing for teenagers to do in Franklin, New Jersey. The Daily News stretches still further, blaming "gangsta...
...cannot make heads or tails of such explanations. All of them seem calculated at some political end or another, without offering much in the way of explanatory power. I think of this grasping at straws as some ploy to understand the world, to suggest that the elimination of broken homes would spell the end of evil...
...football game has broken up now, and Dore has finally harnessed Damaso, who says he's behind one year "because I flunked." She sits him down in the library at the project house, waits for him to stop fidgeting, and patiently helps him count coins and make sentences out of his vocabulary words. "Look at him," she says, holding her hand up for a smiling Damaso to slap after he solves an arithmetic problem. "The kid is a math genius...
...couple met at Dartmouth, where Dorris, part Modoc Indian, had founded the Native American studies program, and Erdrich, also part Native American, was a student and later a writer-in-residence. While Erdrich won praise for her fiction, Dorris' most recognized achievement was his 1989 nonfiction book The Broken Cord. In it Dorris describes how, at age 26, he adopted a three-year-old Sioux boy, becoming one of the first single men in America to legally adopt a child. The child, Abel, had a constellation of mental and physical disabilities caused by the fact that his mother drank heavily...