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...crutch that seemed to help at first ended up preventing Zailckas from standing on her own two feet. Smashed is the lonely history of how alcohol tore her life apart, in ways that anyone who has unwittingly hurt themselves or others can begin to comprehend. “In the end,” Zailckas writes, “I quit drinking because I didn’t want to waste any more time picking up the pieces. I decided smashed, when it’s used as a synonym for drunk, is a self-fulfilling prophecy...

Author: By Joelle Hobeika, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Perils, Thrills of a Smashed Life | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

Attempt to comprehend the outpouring from such a shockingly new medium...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COYNE TOSS: Bring Dunks Our Way | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...advised that it was necessary to read the book in its entirety to comprehend the larger picture. Touching on both the personal, political, and historical, Graham’s chronology of prayers (she shared such poems titled as “Praying June 6, 2003” and “Praying May 9, 2003”) build on one another and offer an insight into the poet’s mind...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof Prays Through Poetry | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...Your cover photograph of private First Class Christopher Lujan put a haunting, human face on the war in Iraq. Lujan, with his innocent face, seemed out of place in the uniform of war and on the streets of hell. Many of us are unable to comprehend how, at the beginning of a new millennium, we are still sending out our beloved children to kill and maim one another. Where are the protests? Will we never learn? Martha Howe Beaverton, Oregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...somewhere. Phil Gonzalez Houston Your cover photograph of private First Class Christopher Lujan put a haunting, human face on the war in Iraq. Lujan, with his innocent face, seemed out of place in the uniform of war and on the streets of hell. Many of us are unable to comprehend how, at the beginning of a new millennium, we are still sending out our beloved children to kill and maim one another. Where are the protests? Will we never learn? Martha Howe Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Why is no one discussing the possibility of replacing the coalition forces in Iraq with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/15/2005 | See Source »

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