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...dead with your sister in games of rescue and abandonment." The poem "Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" opens with his father being bundled into a truck by either government forces or fearsome freelance thugs. That scene, it must be said, reprises earlier writing. The tendency is a major flaw in Lee's corpus - if one writes almost exclusively about one's family history for two decades, repetition is bound to occur, and Lee's descriptions of chaos and burning villages and countries "twice erased/ once by fire, once by forgetfulness" can often feel flatly formulaic...
...will increase public-health spending from the current 1% of India's GDP to up to 3% by 2010, but that's still just half the rate at which countries with comparable per capita incomes such as Senegal and Mongolia fund their health sectors. "What has been a fatal flaw in our approach is that we have gradually abandoned comprehensive health care and a public-health perspective for focused attention on selective diseases," Prime Minister Singh said at the April 2005 launch of the National Rural Health Mission. "We have grievously erred in the design of many of our health...
Last January, Massachusetts’s House and Senate passed legislation to promote green energy with minimal costs to consumers. The bill was mostly progressive and earned applause from environmental groups, but there remains one major flaw. In addition to wind, solar, ocean current, geothermic, and hydroelectric power initiatives, Massachusetts is slated to pass incentives for “clean coal” power plants.One breakthrough provision in Massachusetts’s green energy bill would require a portion of electricity sold in Massachusetts to be derived from “renewable” and “alternative?...
...reports of injury, though one man did call in to complain that he had taken a sip from a bottle and found some glass in his mouth. In a press release issued Monday, Boston Beer founder and brewer C. James Koch ’71 apologized for the uncharacteristic flaw. “We are disappointed and disturbed by this development, and we are doing everything we can to address the situation,” he said. “Since our founding, we have never issued a product recall for any reason.” The recall has affected...
...though, as in-depth characterization takes a backseat to the gambling plot. Despite the script’s lack of depth, Sturgess does a fine job of conveying Ben’s torn loyalties as he becomes increasingly engrossed in the team. The British actor’s one flaw is the inconsistency of his American accent; the rest of Ben’s underdevelopment is the fault of screenwriters Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb.Likewise, Ben’s nerdy MIT friends and fellow cardsharks, like the cliché “hot-girl-in-a-geeky-school?...