Word: brokenly
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Becoming the victim of a robbery will ruin your vacation faster than a bad case of the swine flu. One woman found this out on a recent trip to Hawaii, where her rental car was broken into - and she suspects she's not the only one who's been ripped...
Many Italians don't care about his conflicts of interest (who hasn't got a few?) or his problems with the law (defendants are more simpatico than prosecutors). Broken promises, half-truths, unanswered questions? The word accountability doesn't translate well into Italian. This is the land of human nature, as one American traveller once said. And of emotional politics. France is a bit like that too. It's no coincidence that a bright, quick, short populist, who also happens to be a bit of a ladies' man, is running the show in Paris. Like us, the French see politicians...
...musicians of Soul Boston play at Winthrop… last year. But it was kind of a downer to hear the same neo-soul renditions of “Brick House” and Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” that we'd all broken it down to the year before...
Even Middle Eastern Christians have given up looking to the likes of the Pope for help. In Lebanon, the Middle Eastern nation with the largest concentration of Christians, roughly half of the country's Christians have broken away from their traditionally pro-Western leadership, forming a political alliance with Hizballah, the Shi'a Muslim anti-Israeli militant group. The leader of these breakaway Christians, a populist former general named Michel Aoun, is betting that the only way to secure a Christian future in Lebanon is to look east toward the rising power of Shi'a Islam. It may seem...
...middle-class mother frantically trying to protect her son and the status quo. And she's scary-good as two underclass drabs: a fishwife having a torrid, ruinous affair with Ewan McGregor in Young Adam, or Bill Murray's ex-girlfriend, now trailer trash, in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. (She also has a few moments in Jarmusch's new film The Limits of Control...