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...think you can go through something like this and just come out ready to work and ready to operate. One of the problems that the communities face is that sometimes the kids who are forced to fight are forced to commit atrocities against their own community members, to disconnect them from their communities, and make it impossible for them to go back. So they have nothing to do but fight, because they have nowhere to go. So then the war is ended, and now you have this kid who's gone and killed people in his own community. Is that...
...think both Harvard and Yale have found out that their policies with how to deal with this weekend need to be continually revisited,” said Yale College Council President Steven Syverud. ”I just think there needs to be less of a disconnect between the idea that you need to keep students from drinking so much that they put themselves in danger and the actual practice of drinking at the game...
...Adam G. Zalisk ’07, the incidental music does not draw from period music but rather taps the tense isolation of bands like Interpol and The Velvet Underground. Though the music differs from earlier presentations of the play, the sentiments evoked remain the same. The sense of disconnect and longing that we see in Konstantin’s failed creative struggle is still reflected in the modern rock bands, who seek in their dark music and experimental lyrics the same “new forms” that Konstantin attempts to construct in his plays and writings...
...were relaxing on the yacht of a former Fatah intelligence officer. Then a representative of the Carlyle Group, the global investment behemoth, anchored next to them. "It kept getting crazier and crazier," says Baer. "You could see Gaghan beginning to frame a picture." Part of the insanity was the disconnect between Baer and his old associates. "I'm an ex-bureaucrat," says Baer. "I have no money. I got a $70,000 advance for my book--which in their world is a three-day trip to New York. I think Gaghan saw the tension there...
...previous stop on a promotional tour of his 2004 novel “The Line of Beauty,” his audience was reduced to six when the book discussion conflicted with a White Sox game. And at the outset, this final stop in Cambridge portends another embarrassing disconnect between author and reader: “a gay British guy and a straight American teenager walk into a café” (Algiers, to be precise) sounds more like a weak joke than the convening of kindred spirits. Circumstances don’t help, either–the room...