Word: wente
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...Harvard hand is a pretty bold new approach to the whole problem,” said Townsend. “It went against everything everyone else was trying...
...keep the book moving along at a brief and exciting clip. His prose is always evocative and his diction breathes life into his characters and their surroundings. “If one of money’s laws is that it can never buy taste, here is where it went after it failed, and here’s what it brought instead,” writes Lethem of Manhattan. The narrative flow, dictated almost entirely by Chase—save for a few exceedingly emotive letters penned by his spacey fiancée and a few events that occur...
...first order to disperse went out, marchers slowed and chanted their defiance, but also retreated to regroup and then ran into another line of riot-ready cops and police vehicles as they neared an alternate route - the first of several direct avenues to the summit site they tried. This time, the dispersal order was followed by smoke, then two canisters of OC - Oleoresin of capsicum, that is, pepper spray. Both were kicked back at police. A small protester contingent rolled a Dumpster down the steep hill, which hit something with a boom, although it was hard to see through...
...reportedly ended up costing many times the original estimate of $177 million, a phenomenal amount given that none of the money went to the promised infrastructure projects. (Some reports had the final costs in Rio close to $2 billion; the costs of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, according to Chinese organizers, totaled roughly $2.5 billion.) Some commentators said that was indicative of corruption, but it also suggests serious deficiencies in organization and planning. "Brazil is still learning how to do continuous public policy," Alencar said. "Public works are emergency, localized, specific. There is no strategic planning involved. That was what...
...native, downtowns and suburbs, even suburbs hurting from an economic calamity, are not the real Detroit. The Detroit I both wanted to see and was afraid to see was the city itself, the elm-lined streets of fond memory where my friends and I grew up and went to school and lived idyllic 1950s lives, the place that America once knew as the Arsenal of Democracy...