Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offensive catalysts have been junior forwards Sebastien Laplante and Jay Schiavo, and senior Rob Kenny. Laplante led Northeastern in scoring last year with 47 points, a total both he and Schiavo are on pace to shatter this year...
...student came here to have his or her sexual practices the subject of any expose. I would like to know what has led Landry and other editors of Peninsula to believe they are suddenly the moral guides and leaders of this University, after having undertaken to "shatter myths" and preserve "the pursuit of Truth at Harvard and abroad...
...Sadly, many people believe there are people who, because of their social class, appearance, whatever, can't commit these kinds of crimes. That's ridiculous, since rapists come in every size, shape and background. Part of what we do is shatter these preconceived notions. For example, acquaintances where there hasn't been a sexual relationship before the event is not a difficult case to try. Legislative changes and specialized police and prosecutorial units like ours have made it a lot easier...
...will never shatter that faith beyond repair. For even when its narrative stalls and its dialogue stammers incoherently, the picture seems at worst a necessary mistake for its creators. At its best, and especially considered in the light of the Coens' previous ventures, Barton Fink seems both marvelously audacious and quite inevitable...
...that words can hurt, or that civil rights and tolerance are essential in a democracy, but that hypersensitivity clouds rational discourse: how to knit a contentious American society together rather than allow it to become balkanized by competing interests. "We need to reset the thermostats," writes sociologist Etzioni, "not shatter windows or tear down walls. Extremism in defense of virtue is a vice...