Word: disconnect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Former UC Presidential candidate Charles T. James ’09-’10 announced his resignation from the UC in a scathing e-mail over Leverett House open-list. “[T]here is an apparent disconnect between the student body’s interests and the UC’s structural approach to advocacy,” he wrote. James unsuccessfully ran for UC President last semester with Micha H. Y. Wong ’10. “While I do not question that most of my fellow representatives serve for the same reason...
...There is also a fundamental disconnect between what critics of Israel have loudly proclaimed and what they have actually done to ameliorate the plight of Palestinian people. It is true that innocent civilians in Gaza lack some necessities. But instead of “aiding” the Palestinians by supplying them with missiles and mortars, Syria, Iran, and other countries in the region could provide them with much-needed food and medicine. A concrete improvement in the lives of everyday Palestinians will only occur when the incessant Hamas-instigated violence in the region has come...
Around the time of the '67 Detroit riots, however, things changed, as they eventually had to. Gordy looked west, towards Los Angeles (how could such a large entertainment company as his not be involved in movies and television?). Dissatisfied with the increasing disconnect between the success of their work and the level of their pay, Holland-Dozier-Holland broke off from Motown. And while the Jackson 5 was on the rise, most of the rock-steady Motown acts of the early '60s were on the wane. In 1971, though, the label released what is arguably its grandest artistic statement, something...
...Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bellMiss Suzy went to heaven, the steamboat went toHello operator, please give me number nineIf you disconnect me, I'll cut off yourBehind the 'frigerator...
...newly elected civilian government in Islamabad, led by President Asif Ali Zardari, had shown every sign of wanting to move away from this narrative of hatred and hostility. But Pakistan is a deeply divided nation. As the Kabul bombing showed, the disconnect between the statements of the government and the actions of the ISI suggested that the government was too weak to control its own security apparatus. In India, the state has an army; in Pakistan, the army has a state. An attempt this summer to place the ISI under the Interior Ministry had to be rescinded when the army...