Word: brokenness
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...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...
...wrong because the new economy in the United States will include a large number of manufacturing jobs paying wages which are historically low. It is easy to say that manufacturing can never prosper in America because the fixed prices for labor are too high. The recession has broken the grip of expensive labor. Manufacturing can and will return to the United States. American workers will work on assembly lines. They will be employed but their standard of living will go down. They cannot have jobs if it doesn...
Baris C. Ercal ’10 and Parker A. Lawrence ’12 were struck by the broken railing after it ricocheted off the ground. The students were sitting on the front steps of Claverly, watching a celebration outside the Harvard Lampoon...
Well, once again, Hardin's heart was broken. Reaction from Montana's three-man Congressional delegation was swift and unanimous, but hardly supportive. "I understand the need to create jobs, but we're not going to bring al-Qaeda to Big Sky Country - no way, not on my watch," said Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat. (See pictures from inside the Guantanamo Bay detention facility...
...same Taliban that once banned television now boasts a sophisticated public relations machine that is shaping perceptions in Afghanistan and abroad. Although polls show the movement remains unpopular, the insurgents have readily exploited a sense of growing alienation fostered by years of broken government promises, official corruption, and the rising death toll among civilians from airstrikes and other military actions. "The result is weakening public support for nation-building, even though few actively support the Taliban," says a report from the International Crisis Group, a think tank that monitors conflicts. An American official in Afghanistan agrees: "We cannot afford...