Word: hurtfulness
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...social conventions and sexual taboos to serve as hurdles or brick walls for the plot. Here, we're to assume that the only reason Dan and Marie don't tell the family they have a thing for each other is that they don't want to hurt Mitch's feelings. The real reason is: they're in a movie, and there wouldn't be one if the characters didn't do implausible things. Hence the creakiest gimmick in all of fiction, the HIBK (Had I But Known) ploy. It worked in Oedipus Rex, but in the intervening 2,500 years...
...liberators. It's a shame that Saddam Hussein was so evil that we had to get rid of him by force. Yet Burma, a country rich in culture and tradition, can only wait for U.N. sanctions that will take a while to go into effect and will only hurt the people instead of the junta the sanctions are aimed at. Kevin Heise, Rochester, New York...
What’s really spooky is the Princeton quarterback situation. First-stringer Bill Foran was concussed last week, backup Greg Mroz is also hurt, and No. 3 guy Brian Anderson looked incompetent in limited action last Saturday. Plus, the Tigers secondary that was picked apart by Pizzotti now encounters a Big Red offense that attempts more than 40 passes per game...
This veil of secrecy, however, is to some extent a necessity because openness could hurt the bottom line. If other investors knew how HMC was making its money, they could make the same investments, bidding up asset prices and cutting into its returns. Its techniques would also be laid bare for others to imitate...
...anthropology graduate student died Saturday in a hiking accident in New Hampshire. Stine Rossel suffered a fatal head injury when a log gave way and slid downhill, rolling over Rossel and her husband. Her husband, Brian M. Wood, who is a graduate student in biological anthropology, was not seriously hurt. Rossel was in her eighth year at Harvard. She recently completed her dissertation on the animal exploitation practices of two different communities in the Nile Valley, analyzing animal bones from two archaeological sites. “She was always very excited to see the day’s finds...