Word: lam
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...Shield's endgame dispels that myth. Mackey's corruption has poisoned every relationship he's had. As police investigators close in on the Strike Team's scams, his former disciple Shane (Walton Goggins) has turned on him, trying to kill him, then going on the lam with his pregnant wife and sick son (concern for whose welfare does not keep Mackey from trying to have Shane and his wife whacked). Another Strike Team member is dead, murdered by Shane for fear he might squeal. And Mackey is almost completely estranged from his kids, who along with his ex-wife--whom...
...deliberate structure of 10 groups of 10 14-line sonnets, the collection’s overarching narrative remains confusing. Each of the 10 sections has its own quasi-plot: a woman named Ang suffers through a relationship, a woman falls in love with a painter, a man named Lam flees the scene of a murder and ends up at an airport in Georgia. The characters are little more than ciphers, though, and they often disappear when thematic commentary is to be delivered, only to reappear pages later as if they’d never been gone. The warped style...
...We’re focusing on health care today,” says Eva Z. Lam ’10, before launching into a sample canvassing conversation. According to a study, for every 12 people the students talk to, they will convince one of them to vote for Obama—and with Al Gore ’69 losing the 2000 election by just 537 Florida votes, she reminds the bus that those extra votes could make all the difference...
...Lam ’10, Legislative Director of the Harvard College Democrats, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. Elise X. Liu ’11 is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House. William Weingarten ’11 is an applied math concentrator in Mather House. Liu and Weingarten are members-at-large of the Harvard College Democrats...
...Lam says his company is in sound financial shape and will weather the storm. But other Hong Kong companies - particularly those that invested some of their capital in property and stocks - are facing crippling cash shortages. On Oct. 9, U-Right, a clothing retailer with about 100 outlets in Hong Kong and another 500 in China, was forced to liquidate after it could not meet bank demands to repay its debts. Analysts say the company borrowed too much and expanded too fast in the rush to catch China's economic wave. As the global economy slows, that's likely...