Word: bitterness
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...like a bitter saccharine after taste, the disputes of last fall-centering on the appointment of a new dean of public service--may linger far after the reasons that inspired restructuring have been forgotten...
...that might leave a bitter aftertaste lasting not only for a semester, but for years.HARVARD UNIVERSITY...
...even those of us who never knew him, Gabriel's death is a reminder of the bitter truth that is lost in the routine of late-night study sessions and marathon essay writing. Like so many of us, on December 20, Gabriel left Harvard to fly home for the vacation. He was accompanied by a friend and expected to see his parents on the other end. Gabriel is one of us and every one of us could have been...
...Tansu Ciller resigned, and the country's two secular, pro-Western center-right parties scrambled to form an unlikely coalition, after the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party won Turkey's parliamentary elections with 21% of the vote. Although Ciller's True Path Party and the Motherland Party have long been bitter foes, the victory by the Islamists was enough to spur the former enemies to try to cooperate in forming a government. All other major parties have rejected the idea of creating a coalition with Welfare...
Training exercises in Germany, held in bitter cold, have covered almost every conceivable situation: ambushes, sniper fire, 200 people identifying themselves as refugees trying to cross U.S. lines and begging for food and water. Be polite and non-confrontational but don't feed them, the troops are told. Some of the exercises have been carried out amid ear-shattering recorded noises of artillery fire. In land-mine-awareness lessons, troops are instructed never to take a short cut when navigating unfamiliar terrain and never to try to defuse a mine by themselves. Instead, they are told to mark it with...