Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...coming. How can art, Bolańo asks, a medium of form and meaning, faithfully reflect a world that is blessed with neither? That is in fact a cesspool of randomness and filth? An orderly book, all signal and no noise, would not be a true book. To mirror a broken world, to speak the unspeakable, you need a broken book. That Bolańo should have died and left his book an orphan might even have struck him as appropriate...
...California Protesting a Gay-Marriage Ban While Barack Obama may have broken the color barrier by becoming the nation's first African-American President, the gay and lesbian community in California has erupted in protests following the approval of Proposition 8, which overturns a state supreme court decision upholding gay marriage. On Nov. 8, some 10,000 people, far more than authorities had expected, marched through Hillcrest, the hub of San Diego's gay community. Many opponents of the measure blamed religious groups for the its passage, particularly the Mormon church, which one source estimated had donated some $15 million...
...promise of his season of redemption was decisively broken in the opening minute of play in a loss to Dartmouth on Jan. 11, when Magnarelli dislocated his knee...
...healthcare. Were it simply watched as entertainment, I might not have a problem with “House,” but with patient behavior always a concern, I can’t help but think that the show might build ridiculous expectations for a system that is actually broken. Regardless, I’m going to miss Michael Crichton, his books, and “ER,” and I wonder who he got a seat next to in writer’s heaven. —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...Head Pub is doing its share to raise beer awareness on campus, inviting specialty brewers to speak, beer expertise still isn’t mainstream. I knew next to nothing about brewing myself, though it’s surprisingly easy. The process, essentially liquid baking, can be broken down into five steps...