Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that comfort zone would soon be disrupted. One minute after Moore's second tally, Brown captain Damian Prescott put his team on the board...
None, of course. Unless you can find cold comfort in cold cash. Which is why a sardonic God invented negligence lawyers. Russell Banks, author of the novel from which Atom Egoyan derived The Sweet Hereafter, has, however, improved on His handiwork, creating in Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who chases settlements with a chills-and-fever passion that can be explained not by greed but by the suppurating wounds life has inflicted on him. The man, whom Holm plays with superbly controlled fanaticism, wants compensation from an unfair universe but finds momentary relief in squeezing more readily available targets...
Harvard is currently on a three-game losing streak, but after consecutive losses to Hockey East powers Boston College and B.U.--both Top Ten teams--it should find some comfort in that the fact that it now heads back to league play when it takes on Brown this Saturday...
...history. In some ways The Dark Side of Camelot is just that. Hersh has done the spadework that the writing of history requires, but it also requires judgment, prudence and a willingness to be satisfied sometimes with ambiguous conclusions when human nature (and the best-seller list) prefers the comfort of certainties...
...achieve its intended impact. Although authorities reported that all six gunmen were killed in a shoot-out with police at the scene, that's little comfort to would-be tourists scared off by the prospect of becoming targets in Egypt?s political crossfire...