Word: patchwork
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...streets," Genestier says. "The street is where we're losing our youth today." Borloo himself identifies the mean streets - and meaner projects - as sources of unrest. One solution: knock down some of those dehumanizing tower blocks. The whole of central Epinay would be a candidate for this treatment; a patchwork of massive concrete blocks, it is instantly intimidating and crushingly ugly. And the center of Epinay isn't the worst; at the town's western end lies Orgemont, whose mix of towers and low-slung apartment structures provide a rat run for dealers and a dangerous maze for visitors...
...less, it’s probably to another House to visit the other people they wanted to live with had they been given any type of choice. As a result, while the Houses appear to be lovely melting pots of diverse cultures, ideologies, and activities, the “patchwork quilt” metaphor—this time in reference to blocking groups—may actually be more accurate; while a myriad of different types of people are represented and are placed close to one another in the Houses, people remain largely self-contained entities that escape each other?...
...Office of Legal Counsel, the Bybee memo guided Bush Administration policy towards detainees for almost two years. When its contents were leaked in the summer of 2004, the memo prompted widespread public disgust and was quickly repudiated by the Bush administration.The document itself is a 50-page patchwork of frightening absurdities. Ingeniously interpreting existing laws, Bybee reasons that “physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.” He argues that “the infliction...
First, the center will centralize women’s and gender resources. Harvard already has a patchwork of different resources that serve women’s specific needs, but they are often dispersed in the basements of houses and uncoordinated. For instance, there are many peer mentoring programs that help students deal with a slew of gender-related issues, yet these programs do not work with each other or with the University-sponsored programs that attempt to do the same thing...
...darkest and most disturbing scene was “The Best Daddy,” where Lisa (Masha O. Godina ’08) tries to figure out whether her 13th birthday present from her father (Daniel J. Rinehart ’09), which is covered in a bulky patchwork quilt, is in fact alive or dead. Godina displayed an intense wide-eyed innocence that skillfully avoided caricature. Somehow, the horror of contemplating whether or not Lisa’s sister is dead, and whether her father killed her, did not spoil the tenderness and light-heartedness present...