Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These boys had read their Shakespeare: "Good wombs hath borne bad sons," Harris quoted from The Tempest, as he reflected on how his rampage would ruin his parents' lives. The boys knew that once they staged their final act, the audience would be desperate for meaning. And so they provided their own poisonous chorus, about why they hated so many people so much. In the weeks before what they called their Judgment Day, they sat in their basement and made their haunting videos--detailing their plans, their motives, even their regrets--which Harris left in his bedroom for the police...
...expect him to ruin his life, though," added Hana L. Takusagawa '02. "It's amazing that he has been able to deal with all of this for so long...
...retrospect, McCain claims that the lesson he learned from the Keating scandal was that in politics, appearances matter. Even if he hadn't done anything wrong, guilt by association was enough to ruin even his image. But it's hard to see that as the main lesson, given how careless he still is about appearances. He denounces big-spending special interests and yet accepts flights on corporate jets; he puts the speaker of the Arizona house of representatives on his campaign payroll despite a flurry of ethics charges around him; he neglects to recuse himself from debates about measures that...
...escaped con with a sock puppet on his hand. Just turned 30, the little-known Lindsay-Abaire has suddenly been discovered. He's been commissioned to write a play for Garofalo, and 20th Century Fox has given him a five-year film-and-TV contract. First up: Road to Ruin, a "screwball comedy" being produced by Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump) for Hugh Grant...
...cast thousands of votes for Foley, a professional wrestler. What is a robot, you ask? Robots, or "'bots," as we call them, are automatic voting programs that come into our web site and vote over and over on our polls. Why do we care about them? Because they ruin the fun for everybody. Heavy robot activity can radically alter the vote tally, slow down our web site and crash other polls unrelated to the one under attack. Just because our polls are unscientific doesn't mean that we will allow them to become a joke...