Word: hurtfulness
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...organization were in trouble. After losing his Soviet sponsors, he alienated his rich Arab patrons by siding with Iraq in the Gulf War. Strapped for cash, he had to cut back funding for Palestinian schools and hospitals, students' tuition and widows' pensions in the occupied territories, which hurt his popular support. The militant fundamentalists of Hamas were winning converts and beating his candidates in elections for chambers of commerce, labor unions and student organizations. Bankrupt, dismissed by some U.S. officials as a spent force, Arafat needed Rabin. And in turn Rabin needed the Chairman. Like Arafat, Rabin had not intended...
...Balkans reminded everyone, the global city has no police force. Bosnia has been a tragedy of peacemaking turned against itself: the U.N.'s lightly armed blue helmets became virtual hostages to the Serbs and an excuse for Europeans and Americans not to use real force lest the peacekeepers be hurt. The collapse of international law and civil behavior, and the failure of the U.S. or Europe to do anything effective to stop the killing, helped subvert the idea that the world had made much progress toward the higher brain. The feckless sighing and the elaborate international shrugs that masked themselves...
...looking at you, Katie Couric in “Shark Tale”). But they can’t turn bad lines into good ones. Braff conquers with his delivery and lucks out on having some choice lines with which to work— “Prepare to hurt, and I don’t mean emotionally, like I do.” The soundtrack for the film mirrors exactly what is wrong with it. The “cool” ’90s songs that the characters sing (“Wannabe?...
...good individual performances, others of us did not have very good races.” “We were obviously pretty frustrated with the result,” junior Peter Mullen said. “Three guys who have been in our top five throughout the season were hurt and didn’t run. The guys who raced also did not run close to what they were expecting.” Scherf paced the women for the second year in a row with her 17:22.3—which was good enough for fifth...
Certainly the viola’s chances in the “battle” were not hurt by Kim Kashkashian, the world-renowned violist who took the reins for the concerto. Harbison’s concerto is one the most difficult pieces in a violist’s repertoire and Kashkashian played it brilliantly. The composition itself, however, was a bit muddled, and it seemed that only during this second event could audience members be seen suppressing yawns...