Word: settledness
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So forgive me if I don't join the new fad. Nations need time to develop institutions that guarantee liberty and prosperity. It took France around 90 years to go from violent revolution to a settled bourgeois democracy. All countries make mistakes, and wise ones will seek help and protection...
Nouman's life settled into a pattern. She would be arrested, thrown into prison for a few months of torture, then forced to spend a month in the mental hospital. She would be released for a few months, and then the cycle would begin again. Looking back, she has difficulty...
DIED. NINA SIMONE, 70, fiery, eclectic singer and classically trained pianist who was known, somewhat inaccurately, as the "high priestess of soul"; of undisclosed causes; in Carry-le-Rouet, France. Born Eunice Waymon (she changed her name so her mother wouldn't catch on to her pop career), the onetime...
Now that Harvard has buckled down and set its bureaucratic wheels whirring to take rape seriously, the administration is ready to eliminate whatever causes it can identify. Casting its eyes over the usual suspects, it has quickly settled on alcohol as the source of trouble.
“I’ve settled my rhythms,” she says. “I’ve finally after some years managed to find complete repose.”