Word: problem
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...reading of names of domestic violence survivors and the puffy-painted T-shirts hung out in the Yard served as shocking reminders of this pressing social problem at Harvard and definitely in the world beyond. In the time you have taken to read this column, 12 women will have been victims of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from husbands, boyfriends and lovers--every 15 seconds a woman in America becomes a victim of domestic violence, according to a panelist at a Tuesday night TBTN panel...
...other hand, maybe poetry is everyone. Maybe everyone, whether they know it or not, has been touched by poetry. The problem is not that poetry is disappearing: poetry lives always and (I'm willing to bet) in everyone. The problem is that people have stopped recognizing where their lives and poetry intersect. Sales of poetry are declining and declining in bookstores around the world. We are forgetting that poetry...
...other hand, maybe poetry is everyone. Maybe everyone, whether they know it or not, has been touched by poetry. The problem is not that poetry is disappearings: poetry lives always and (I'm willing to bet) in everyone. The problem is that people have stopped recognizing where their lives and poetry intersect. Sales of poetry are declining and declining in bookstores around the world. We are forgetting that poetry...
...Premise In Big Daddy, Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, a toll collector who has never relaly grown up (sound familiar?) That becomes a major problem when he decides to adopt a kid in a misguided attempt to woo his ex-girlfriend back. The first thing Sonny learns about fatherhood is that children do not come with a money-back guarantee. After accepting that, he learns a lot more--about raising a child and about himself...
General Barry R. McCaffrey, director of the White House Office of National Drug Policy, told an invited audience at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday that although successes have been made in the campaign against drugs, the problem remains great...