Word: stricken
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...would have made. The President's body language was more ophthalmologist than dictator. He sat hunched deep in a black leather couch. There was no physical sense of power or menace to the man, no sociopathic cool, just consternation. When I asked him who killed Rafiq Hariri, he seemed stricken: "The most important question is, Who had the benefit...
...during his lecture at Harvard, describing the current network of 260 centers open to the Brazilian public where, according to Gil, anyone has access to the use of equipment for artistic projects. The goal for 2006, Gil explains, is 1,000 of these culture points, concentrated in poverty-stricken areas, where manifestations of culture can be a positive force for the community, especially the younger generations. Not only would these cultural centers be individually effective, but according to Gil, they would also act as a way of linking communities...
While Kaminsky says Summers was oblivious to the stricken senior, Abel’s flip-book style series of photos shows that Summers did turn his head to look at Kaminsky. And University Provost Stephen E. Hyman and several others of the powers-that-be did ask if the hapless senior was ok. “I was fine,” he promises...
After spending a month volunteering with the Department of Defense and Project Hope in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 42 employees from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital—returned this past weekend from the tsunami-stricken region...
...Grief-stricken by the eventual death of her beloved father, who is played with by Voi Feseaitu in a performance of tender devotion, Viki runs away from her home and into the wilds of the jungle. In her forsaken state, Viki finds solace in her promise to her father. She finally realizes that she does, in fact, have the power to combine the integrity of her traditional values with the ambition of her Western education, and thus stay true to herself without abandoning her heritage...