Word: hurtfulness
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...since the fall of the Soviet Union, power has been centered in the office of the President. Boris Yeltsin was flawed and ineffective, yet held significant powers. Putin inherited them, enhanced them, and transformed the presidency into a source of pride and respect for many Russians. It didn't hurt, of course, that world prices for oil and other Russian natural resources hit sky-high levels, enabling Putin to dole out favors and goodies to lift Russia up from the chaos of the immediate post-Soviet years and secure his position...
...party is not Nader's goal. He simply wants to give people--especially those who are independent and didn't vote in the primaries--a chance to register dissatisfaction so extreme that they're willing to hurt themselves to express it. He exists for the same strange reason as Jack...
...plane, one line at a time (“Death is friendship,” “Death is Chile,” “Death is my heart”). At the end, Bolaño insists that Ramírez Hoffman can no longer hurt anyone, but immediately backtracks: “I didn’t really believe it. Of course he could. We all could.” The nightmare, after all, is unsettlingly close to the real.And that, ultimately, is what makes these fictional and absurd monsters so indelible. Within the pages...
...Chelsea, New York. “Similarly, in attempting to grapple with them we are involved in processes that are analogous to cartography.”Van Wyk attributes the recent receptivity of contemporary African art to globalization, which he argues has the potential to both help and hurt the contemporary African art scene. “Globalization is both the enabler and the digester,” he says. “It both enables the incorporation, but as it incorporates it digests and dissolves. So it’s like kind of a black hole that sucks everything...
...causes of death, the NEDA reports. And suicide is the primary cause of death for anorexics, greater even than starvation. Holm-Denoma stresses her research highlights how seriously treatment providers must take suicide risks amongst those suffering from eating disorders. "The likelihood of whether a patient wants to lethally hurt herself must be assessed right away," Holm-Denoma says, adding, "Addressing psychiatric needs must be paramount...