Word: suffering
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Counterpointing the Incandenza chronicle is the sorry saga of Don Gately, a former burglar and reformed drug addict who would rather suffer the agony of a gunshot wound than risk getting rehooked by pain killers. Ghosting through both densely detailed narratives is a group of legless Quebec separatists tasked with stealing Infinite Jest. They want to use its deadly amusing powers as a weapon. Filmmaker James Incandenza, was so entertained that he committed suicide by sticking his head in a hot-wired microwave oven...
...Harvard help--it's not a federal job," Dornan told The Crimson. He added that students majoring in science and engineering--being better contributors to technological advancement--should receive aid, while those majoring the humanities are "supposed to suffer...
Some storekeepers, such as Renato D. Reis, who owns the men's accessory shop Renato's, will suffer greatly because of the University's decision. He said he invested $60,000 in his 180-square-foot store and had to undergo six months of interviews to obtain that space...
...world's best wrestling centers. Says heavyweight Kurt Angle: "I'm not sure what happens to us as a team." If the club dissolves, as seems likely, "it will be missed," says Art Martori of the rival Sunkist Kids club in Phoenix, Arizona. "It's a shame. Wrestling will suffer...
...notion of compassion is at the heart of both the national political debate and the presidential campaign. Concerned that voters see them as heartless technocrats, more and more Republicans want to make sure that the phrase compassionate conservative is not an oxymoron. The derivation of compassion means "to suffer with," and some conservatives, like William Bennett and Arianna Huffington, are worried that come the election next fall, they might suffer for not having shown enough...