Word: mattering
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...slavery to escape from or mercenary coyotes chasing her; it's just that her situation comes with a base level of resentment, humiliation, discomfort and homesickness. The movie is most effective when it is illustrating the pain of not feeling comfortable anywhere, of knowing that no matter how bad your new home is, it's worse back in your old home. (See TIME's photos of life in the West Bank...
...send my brother to the airport to pick it up. I even got a response to my e-mail complaint: an apology and a $50 voucher for future Delta travel. I'm not sure whether to say thank you or ask what took so long. But it doesn't matter. There's no one to call...
...truth of the matter: Many Harvard professors assign an inconceivable quantity of reading. Soon, overwhelmed by four (or five) classes’ worth of impossible course work, most Harvardians realize that they won’t survive unless they ditch some of their texts. Very few students I’ve met in my two-plus years here actually absorb word-for-word every assigned page (and the rare ones who review all the material do so over reading period...
...while it may seem as if we don’t have any choice in the matter, there are ways to combat the post-shopping-period crash. The key is to prolong that initial sense of excitement that permeates the Coop in September—even once we realize we’re screwed. At that moment, instead of admitting failure, giving up, and declaring that life totally sucks, it’s hypothetically possible to stay starry-eyed. To see the coming semester as a puzzle. To pick and choose. To determine what’s actually necessary...
...vigorously asserted - or that compassion alone dictated the Libyan's release, the documents suggest a process every bit as murky as conspiracy theorists might have imagined. While the British government made a public show of neutrality on the issue, saying any change in al-Megrahi's status was a matter for Scotland, it turns out that a British minister once gave assurances to Libya that neither Prime Minister Gordon Brown nor his Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, "would want Mr. Megrahi to pass away in prison." This revelation, embedded in one of the newly released minutes of a meeting between Scottish...