Word: failed
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...around me like life rafts to protect me against the incoming tide of loneliness. I worried about hours spent alone and phones that rang infrequently, and I became convinced of my own inability to be social and loved as one, and then another, and then another, budding relationship would fail. I watched my roommates succumb to depression as their fundamental ideas of themselves were shattered by the social demands placed on them at Harvard. Although we all enjoyed our classes, the one lesson we avowedly did not want to learn was precisely that which my sophomore year fling tried...
...Since the early 1990s, Diamond has focused on the study of environmental history and worked as a professor in UCLA’s Geography department. His most recent book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” was published...
...Fail: Audiences ignored and critics shrugged at Youth Without Youth, the experimental movie your buddy Francis Coppola made last year. So what? Youth got Francis out of a 10-year dry spell and excited about making movies again. Now he's at work on another. Make your own weird little film with no expectations. When it hits theaters, take a vacation, ignore the weekend grosses and start brainstorming your next movie...
...Spared the burden of considering multiple parts of the world at once, single-issue advocates may have a hard time seeing the relationship of one foreign policy challenge to another. Viewing issues la carte, they might be unable or unwilling to prioritize. To be fair, if young advocates fail to see the way Guantnamo has undermined U.S. efforts in Darfur, they are being no more tunnel-visioned than the Bush Administration. But they are the ones we are counting on to help turn things around...
...medical fees; two teens have given birth in the state's care, although both turned out to be over the age of consent. Officials say they hope to reunite the families but not before parents attend psychological counseling and parenting classes. Lawyers for the parents argue that such plans fail to resolve whether the children will be able to return to the group's compound and what to do about visitations, which are nearly impossible because siblings have been scattered across Texas. Results of DNA tests to determine the sect's complicated family relationships are expected in June...