Word: shatteringly
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...last gasp of an old order, or the first breath of a new one? "I definitely would not be where I am today if it weren't for my family name and connections," says Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy, 34, who used that name and those connections to shatter fund-raising records last year as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I often joke that I'm the best example of why there should be campaign-finance reform...
...Next up: ABC's "The Runner," in which the viewing audience turns group bounty hunter, hoping to stumble across a "Fugitive"-like contestant at, say, the local McDonald's. (This one will shatter Jeff Probst's existing record for most shameless product placement...
...Consequences are steep once the media gets involved, as issues that once involved one or two people now involve many hundreds, and the aftermath is suddenly considered “news.” Reputations shatter in four-word headlines, and once broken, a name can never be fully repaired. And yet every day entire lives get staged from headline to headline. Sometimes that performance is saddening for everyone involved...
...rape-murder, Leonard (Guy Pearce) loses all short-term memory. Investigating her death, he takes Polaroids of everyone he meets. But his condition prevents him from constructing a coherent account of a day in his life, let alone the crime in question. The film takes this attempt to shatter narrative into little pieces about as far into incoherence as it can go; yet it is also full of odd, hypnotic menace...
...unprecedented impact on economy and society--because it kills so many adults in the prime of their working and parenting lives, it decimates the workforce, impoverishes families and shreds communities." In Zimbabwe, agricultural output dropped nearly 20 percent in 1999 because of AIDS; left unchecked, the disease will shatter economies throughout Africa...