Word: scarring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ethnic cleansing spoke to a packed auditorium in Boylston Hall, as a guest of one of Harvard’s oldest student groups. Amidst cheers and laughter from her adoring fans from the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), syndicated columnist Ann Coulter spewed her hateful rhetoric, and left a permanent scar on a campus known for tolerance...
...truth when our Congressional leaders suddenly forgot their party rivalries and, standing together at the Capitol, sang “God Bless America” in unison. And feel it we must, for it is this truth that the terrorists who blew apart the Manhattan skyline and gouged a scar in the Pentagon seek to destroy. They did not attack mere buildings. They did not attack individual people. They attacked, deliberately, the greatest force for freedom, democracy and prosperity that the world has ever seen...
...shunning of mirrors. "I made her remove her veil and look at herself," Durrani says firmly. "Fakhra's face is the crime of a man against a woman. It is not shame for her." The shame resides back in Pakistan?where a powerful man's unpunished rage can scar forever a woman's life...
...broke against my skin. After I barely avoided getting hit by Cathy as Uch threw her in the pool, I looked down and saw a deep gash carved out of the center of my hand. It’s basically healed now, but it remains to be seen what scar I will bear in the end. (Mom, you will not be pleased when you read this.) Needless to say, I’ve also stayed away from handcuffs...
...books are sloppy and convoluted, and parts of them often fail entirely, but that's only because of the enormous chances Pynchon takes. In Pynchon's books something huge is always at stake: the arms race begun in World War II, the scar of our country dividing North and South, the fascism of the post office. Stick to what you know is good advice for a writing seminar, but it will never get you into the ring with Homer...