Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, no new ground is really broken byJawbreaker. It's not a terrible movie, butits frankness, blunt honesty and morbid subjectmatter render it a movie for those with strongstomachs and an even darker sense of humor. Itsone triumph is its success in pinpointing the oneuniversal truth of high school. Forget Satan andall of his minions; the embodiment of pure evil inhigh school wears dark lipstick and miniskirts...
...some feathers with his wry words of advice. "Life is like a shit sandwich," he cracked. "The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat." He sticks by this motto tighter than Post-it notes in his new movie Payback, even at the threat of ten broken toes. Never has so much been wrought for so little...
...truth, the Economics Department does not hold to a "why fix what's broken" mentality as asserted by the Crimson editors. Reality is a little more nuanced. The fact is, economics undergraduates and faculty have divergent ideas on what optimal interaction might be like. Although I am sympathetic to student concerns, I hope I can put the faculty position in a better light...
...what's broken?" was the answer put forth by The Crimson's staff. This theory is not exactly robust to criticism. It presumes a mindset among professors to ignore undergraduates. The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to reconcile student demands with other faculty pressures. Unless one assumes, as The Crimson may have, that all professors in all departments have equal demands on their time in all directions, a simple cross-sectional comparison of departmental advising can be somewhat misleading...
When Scott from Kirkland's world goes awry, he turns to other sources of order--family, friends, school. Latrell from Milwaukee's world in the main stream was shaped by nothing but hoops. He was a recluse from a broken home who learned that it's pretty hard to suckle basketball...