Word: broken
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...officers have colluded with right-wing paramilitaries who have been responsible for a number of massacres. Moreover, it is widely agreed that no side of the long-running civil war is free of associations with the drug lords. Peace talks between the government and the rebels appear to have broken down, and the largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has vowed to retaliate against the U.S. for its expanded involvement...
...already won. So Gore finally lived up to his own billing: the candidate who is not afraid to choose "the hard right over the easy wrong," the fighter who doesn't shrink in the ring. The hard, joyless endeavor of winning votes had been "like crawling over broken glass," in the words of an aide. It seemed the least that fate owed him at the end was, if not a blessed victory, then a quick, clean defeat. But in the past five weeks, "the situation, the significance, the stakes all brought out the best in him," says Ron Klain...
...preside over more than one screen, we'll open a multiplex. In one week, we had to ban Eminem from our home, coach our 8-year-old through the scary parts of The Wizard of Oz and trick the 3-year-old into believing that our unplugged TV was broken...
Modesty is a virtue, in Victorian novels as well as (in this age of falling chandeliers) Broadway musicals, but Jane Eyre's low-tech production is underwhelming to a fault. Characters are typically surrounded by darkness, as sets are wheeled in and out--a window, a chair, a broken chestnut tree. John Napier's design is often handsome, in its burnished browns and greens, but he and Caird don't seem up to the story's more difficult physical challenges: a fire set in Rochester's bedroom in the middle of the night, or Jane's first encounter with Rochester...
Apparently, though, traditions are made to be broken. This year I thought sure our movie choice would be Jim Carrey's The Grinch, what with all those Christmasy costumes. But Mom has her heart set on Dude, Where...