Word: lawlessness
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...College has an amazing way of making it okay to not get out of bed in the morning,” says Laura M. Lawless ’00. Many of her years at Harvard were troubled with depression, but when she did get out of bed, she got moving. Lawless, now 23, is currently the reigning Miss Arizona, and when she finishes touring the country to raise awareness about mental health, she’ll get around to finishing her law degree at Arizona State University. Lawless grew up in New York, where she competed in the Junior Miss...
...behind the swimsuit catwalks and glittering tiaras, things were more complicated. Lawless had been diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of 17. At the time, she responded well to medication, beginning her freshman year at Harvard feeling optimistic. But come sophomore fall, things weren’t going quite as well. And despite Lawless’s positive past experience with treatment, she was reluctant to seek help. “I wanted to fix it myself,” she says, and is first to acknowledge the irony of that statement, coming from a psychology concentrator...
...long distance boyfriend in New York, and looking back, she says he was yet another justification for her isolation. Lawless avoided the dining hall and ate in her room, but as she fell into a cycle of depression, she only felt worse. She says the achievements of her fellow undergraduates only compounded her insecurity...
Bold brigands and ordinary opportunists raided museums, banks and stores in the lawless days following Baghdad’s collapse. They stole ancient treasures from the city’s famous museums where some of the most impressive archaeological finds of the past century had been preserved. Among the missing artifacts were thousands of ancient cuneiform tablets, the 5,000-year-old Vase of Uruk and the Harp of Ur. This enormous cultural loss is a profound blow to Iraq and the world...
...LAWLESS HEART. Friends and family converge on a small town in northern England for a funeral in Lawless Heart. Stuart, the deceased, was a young gay man who leaves behind a healthy bank account and successful restaurant when he drowns off the Isle of Man. Nick, his partner, and Dan, his brother-in-law, immediately begin competing over the restaurant. Both are sidetracked by unexpected relationships: Nick with his first woman, and Dan with an inappropriately frisky female guest at Stuart’s funeral. The film’s structure is initially somewhat confusing-it revisits the funeral...