Word: losses
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...such a mundane and illogical manner. This makes up the simultaneously brilliant and irritating quality of Ishiguro’s work; his characters may not delve deeply into their inner emotional complexities, but they are true to their real life counterparts, who often similarly cope with loss and failure in utterly banal ways...
...communicating here is poetry’s fascination with presentation, its syntax, sound, rhythm—aspects that depend on its language of origin—so that there is an almost absurdly destructive quality to any translation. Though its semantic meaning can hold, translation risks the utter loss of all emotional register. This theoretical problem manifests itself pertinently in the anxiety that a translation is not identical to the original, and therefore inauthentic. It’s a troubling feeling to go to the library or bookstore to pick up a foreign poet, only to find three or four...
After suffering a 27 percent investment loss in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, the University found itself unable to tap many of its most-recently endowed funds, which had fallen in value to less than the amount bequeathed by the donor and are considered “underwater...
...loss to another cross-town opponent marked a slight improvement for a Harvard team that failed to come up with only a single shot attempt in its 9-0 shutout loss to No.4 Princeton this past weekend...
...managers before the credit crunch. A bad episode (in this case historically bad) will naturally give pause but should not force Harvard to abandon more risky investments in the future if such investments are the smart choice. The entire Harvard community and even all of Greater Boston feel the loss when financial woes strike Harvard. This shared burden, however, cannot justify a policy of forced, unnecessary conservative investing. The community may suffer with Harvard’s losses, but it benefits from its gains as well. Struggles in Cambridge are also being felt nationwide—Harvard...