Word: bitterness
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...make the most difficult choices. If the initiative is to be taken away from zealots on both sides, politicians will need a shove from those with the greatest stake in achieving a placid life. The Simons and the Zeidans ache for normality. They are exhausted by war, depressed, often bitter. They do not yet see a way to bridge the gulf between them...
...Ukraine's first 10 years of independence have turned out to be a lost decade and the history of those years, in the words of a U.S. diplomat, are best viewed as "a case study in state-sponsored looting." This week Ukraine is coming to the end of another bitter, rancorous and accusation-filled election. Officially at stake are the 450 seats in the parliament, or Verkhovna Rada. The most powerful challenge to Kuchma comes from Viktor Yuschenko, who acquired a modest reputation as a reformer during his time as Prime Minister and whose Our Ukraine bloc is way ahead...
...Hollywoodized Academy overlooks things, it’s even arguable that they represent a majority meshing of critical and public opinion. However, they don’t need to be quite as obvious about caring so little about artistic value. When it comes down to the winner of a bitter gossip match over historical accuracy, the value and long-running reverence of the Oscars is completely undermined. One thing should be asserted this year: Rather than voting based on whether or not a film is historically justified, or some other absurdly irrelevant reason, perhaps they should vote on how good...
...bids to the tournament. Either Alaska-Fairbanks or Northern Michigan would have been the seventh western team, but Harvard’s improbable win, coupled with Cornell’s dominating ECAC campaign, placed two ECAC teams in the NCAA bracket. The Crimson’s win was especially bitter for Alaska-Fairbanks, which could have earned its first-ever NCAA berth...
...enjoys the support of the leadership of UEFA, the body that governs European football and is one of FIFA's biggest constituencies. As ever with football, there are agendas within agendas: UEFA is headed by Lennart Johansson, whom Blatter defeated for the FIFA leadership in 1998. But even with bitter enemies arrayed against him and a potential financial scandal looming, don't count Blatter out. He's a master of taking victory against the odds...