Word: tore
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...farmers believe the central government headed by President Hu will carry out the law for the people. We believe you certainly will take care of our village affairs." But before he was able to submit his letter, Liu says, a group of hooligans stopped him at the train station, tore up the letter and kept him hostage for eight days in a hotel. "I can't understand why no one addresses my problems," Liu says. "What good is the law if it doesn't serve the people...
...Beal tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee during his sophomore season—an injury that has hounded him since, but that was seriously aggravated recently...
...three-alarm fire tore through a Harvard-owned house at 47-49 Banks St. in the early morning hours the day after Thanksgiving, claiming the life of one inhabitant and reducing the building to rubble. The building, which housed two Harvard graduate students and Cambridge resident Gladys Evans, 78, was consumed by an accidental blaze, according to Cambridge Fire Department Chief of Operations John Gialanis. He said the department plans to issue a formal report about the fire’s cause today. Evans, the building’s only inhabitant at the time, died in the fire. Her nieces...
...cash? Could he be so shallow? In a recent college conference call with 50, The Crimson tried to find out.‘IN THE PUBLIC EYE’As 50 begins to speak, I immediately recognize his slur. (When he was shot in 2000, one of the bullets tore through his cheek and jaw, leaving a fragment of metal in his tongue.) I ask 50 if he thinks “get rich or die tryin’” is a hopeful message.“If you’re a real person and a positive...
Last week’s devastating earthquake in Kashmir tore communities apart and plunged a region already beset by strife and uncertainty deeper into chaos. With the death toll rising past 50,000 and heading towards 100,000, a rising chorus of voices in Cambridge has been asking just how large a crisis has to be for Harvard to match donations from members of the community, as it has done two other times this year. Although we understand the call to have a clear-cut policy as to when Harvard will match donations, we feel that the University should continue...