Word: clear
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...into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa, and who may be slowly going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It only becomes clear in Part 4 - "The Part about the Crimes" - that Bolaño is performing these lateral leaps the better to observe from all sides what the reader only gradually recognizes as the book's true subject: the horrific serial rape and killing of hundreds of women in and around Santa...
...face of the greatest financial meltdown in decades, University President Drew G. Faust made one thing clear: Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment would be affected...
...which the show was taken. Experimental is certainly the correct term, but the experimental portion of the production simply gets out of hand. “Lunatics don’t have reasons,” Mrs. Venable screams, and the intentions of Vartikar-McCullough aren’t clear, either...
...right-wing former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she may still lack a majority capable of forcing through a peace agreement that will ignite fierce, and probably violent, resistance from militant right-wing West Bank settlers. Israeli democracy has not given any political party or politically coherent bloc a clear majority in parliament since...
...major areas, including "low-income housing, rural infrastructure, water, electricity, transportation, the environment, technological innovation and rebuilding from several disasters, most notably the May 12 earthquake." While the details of exactly when and where the money will be spent were not revealed, Sunday's announcement did make it clear that the government not only aims to boost its spending on infrastructure and projects but also seeks to get notoriously savings-obsessed Chinese consumers - who boast the highest household-savings rate in the world - to do more spending of their own. The package proposes to do this by, among other things...