Word: brokenness
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Carried away by the throbbing Italian voice that filled the entire Bastille Opera house and hung quivering in the air, I forgot for a moment to pay any attention to the French subtitles displayed over the magnificent stage. When the voice died away and the silence was finally broken by thunderous applause and the oddly restrained enthusiasm of “Bravo! Bravo!”, I joined in and clapped till my palms stung, only noting (with a laugh to Thibaud) the absence of any American cheering or whistles. I was studying abroad in France at École...
...possesses a self-awareness that renders him a bit less obnoxious than I've described, and he happens to have done a better job than just about anyone else of forecasting in 2006 and early 2007 what was about to happen in U.S. financial markets. This wasn't a broken-clock-is-right-twice-a-day thing: Schiff appeared on the national scene just as the credit bubble was reaching maximum inflation and offered a critique of the nation's unsustainably debt-fueled economic trajectory that is now--after the fact--widely accepted...
...were both in relationships, and from my freshman year up until my junior year we were friends,” Gandia said. “Our relationship was limited to salsa.” But one night over dancing, Gandia and Gonzalez realized that they had both broken up with their respective significant others. They started dating soon after, and on the couple’s one-year anniversary, Gonzalez proposed. Gonzalez completed his Ph.D in chemical engineering at MIT in 2008. Although Gandia is eight years his junior, she doesn’t think about the age difference...
...record and placed her 10th in the nation in that category—making her one of only two freshmen to crack the top 30 and earning her one of the two pitchers’ spots on the All-Ivy First Team.But despite all the recognition and the records broken, Brown never anticipated such success. “I definitely did not expect everything that happened,” she said. “I didn’t expect to pitch as much [as I did], but I think coming into this, I knew this team would be something...
...could be in conversation with Chanequa and it would be broken up five or six times in one street because everyone loves Chanequa,” said Jonah C. Priour ’09, who said they “spent a good amount of time” together freshman year and “kept in touch over the years...