Word: stricken
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...only would HarvardforHumanity attract attention to Harvard, but it will also attract the right attention. Rather than being in the news for huge drops in its endowment, Harvard could be in the news for finding a new way to deliver supplies to disaster stricken areas. Most importantly, however, HarvardforHumanity positions Harvard as a leader in humanitarian ideals. As a premier research institute and university, Harvard has clearly set itself a goal to advance human knowledge. But in translating that goal to undergraduate education, perhaps we are aiming too low by just educating the next generation of humanitarian leaders. Harvard students...
There's unpopular, there's widely loathed, there's despised, and then there's John Edwards. Americans are a tolerant people, but they have a line, and evidently when you cheat on your cancer-stricken wife, lie about it to everyone while running for President and then decline to acknowledge fathering a love child for two years, you've crossed it. Given the towering stack of strikes against him, can Edwards resume any kind of public life? Short of curing his wife's cancer, is there anything he could do to get people to at least tolerate...
...point to China. In May 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern province of Sichuan, pancaking homes, schoolhouses and other buildings and killing at least 68,000 people. But the ferocity of the temblors and the huge death tolls may be the only parallels between the two quake-stricken nations...