Word: brokenness
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...cured them. After all, if he never bet against conventional wisdom, Murdoch would still be the proud owner of the Barrier Miner - the local paper of the outback town of Broken Hill, Australia - and nothing else...
...action sports is that I'm a bit of a spaz. I first learned this 45 years ago when, while bicycling, I turned to stick out my tongue at a girl and crashed into a pole. I totaled my three-speed and nearly my body. Since then, I have broken both legs--one skiing, the other playing football. I tried mountain-biking a few years ago and took an epic spill on my first downhill...
...core, though, he was a storyteller for everyone. "The lessons I have learned are not limited to race, gender or sexual orientation," Harris said upon publishing his memoir, What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. "Anyone can overcome a broken heart. Every life is a story worth telling...
...crisis in Indian policing is not restricted to the country's border states, and runs much deeper than the police's proclivity for "encounters." In an 118-page report, Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse and Impunity in the Indian Police, released last week, Human Rights Watch has highlighted a range of corrupt practices by Indian police, including accepting bribes, arbitrarily arresting, detaining and torturing people, and carrying out extrajudicial killings. Indian police, it says, operate outside the law, lack requisite ethical and professional standards, and are overstretched and often outmatched by criminal elements. "India is modernizing rapidly, but the police continue...
...likely to be interrupted by the religious police. He describes a recent rock party thrown by his friends where some 200 concertgoers were arrested in a late-night sting by the Basij; later, the government issued a news report that a "Satanic underground movement" had been infiltrated and broken...