Word: ruining
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...threat of financial ruin is one reason Boston last month pulled back from a proposed settlement that would have given as much as $30 million to 86 victims of convicted child molester Father John Geoghan. Boston and other defendants are now taking a harder line against plaintiffs, interviewing their ex-wives, detailing their history of drug abuse or money troubles. "We act like any other defendant in any other civil litigation," says David Smith, chief financial officer of the Boston archdiocese. "If counsel for the diocese didn't explore every possible avenue, they'd be negligent...
...intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing a 1931 Micheaux talkie, "Daughter of the Congo," in the New York Amsterdam News. "Even if the picture possessed no other defects, this artificial association of nobility with lightness and villainy with blackness would be enough to ruin...
...romantic rejections go, the one William J. Maskiell ’02 received his first year was fairly brutal. The girl in question didn’t tell him that he was a nice guy or that she didn’t want to ruin their friendship. She didn’t pretend to have a boyfriend. She didn’t roll her eyes or ignore him. She didn’t even claim to not have a phone...
Thanks for the terrific article on U2's Bono and his efforts to save Africa from financial ruin [MUSIC, March 4]. He's not a saint. He is a hardworking, real man, using his gifts to inspire us in song and make a difference in the world. Some issues are so overwhelming that most of us don't even try to fix them. Bono can't save the world by himself, but like others who have shown the way, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi, he is proving that one man can make a difference. CAROLINE HARTMAN...
Judging by the humble persona the band radiates, it seems that they are in no near danger of allowing success to ruin them, despite the passion of their fans. The Saturday crowd could hardly contain its excitement. In anticipation, the audience chanted “Let’s go Murphy’s, let’s go!” while waiting for their set to begin...