Word: sundering
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...vehicles have made the three-hour journey from the provincial capital Chengdu, spending two hours of it crawling through countryside affected by the cataclysmic earthquake in May. We say countryside - in fact, the view through the windows is an unsettling inversion of what the term normally evokes. Giant fissures sunder the hills and there are yawning voids where roads should be. Broad swaths of boulders and debris remain on the mountain slopes just as violent landslides deposited them on that terrible afternoon nearly seven months ago. Down in a flooded valley, bare and broken tree trunks poke through the water...
...Brown is how to position himself to take advantage of that change. "A lot depends on the mood after the Inauguration, as to whether the new U.S. Administration will want to be connecting to the multilateralist argument, in which case Brown will be in the right place," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated think tank the Fabian Society...
...other words, they may have danced together and possibly canoodled chastely in the woods, but there is no evidence that they attempted to run away together. Or that his rich uncle or her rich neighbors cruelly tried to sunder their relationship. Or that?. But it may not matter. Austen has become, in recent years, a kind of movie franchise, in some ways not unlike Harry Potter - except, of course, for a much more limited and self-consciously literary audience. With the exception of the rambunctious and highly cinematic Emma Thompson-Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility of a dozen years...
...system ("stuff and nonsense," says an aide). But the idea that there's no smoke without fire is deeply rooted in British public life, and a pall hangs over Downing Street. "Britain remains a very clean political system, but you have this public sense of something being up," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a left-of-center think tank. He speaks of a "corrosive lack of trust" that is undermining the credibility of the political system. There's little evidence that voters are worried about whether honors were waved hypnotically in front of round-eyed donors...
...spring of their junior year, 48 students in the fall of their senior year, and about 90 or 100 students at the end of senior year. The total number of students invited to join Phi Beta Kappa is approximately 10 percent of the graduating class. Anushka M. Sunder ’07, an economics concentrator in Cabot House, said her academic environment helped her excel. “Having an interest in the courses I was taking helped me to stay motivated, and it’s really nice to have teachers who acknowledge your work and take a more...