Word: bitterness
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...bitter-sweet week for the Harvard women's team, which went 1-4 on its spring break jaunt to California. The Crimson--ranked 35th nationally--defeated a higher-ranked opponent in Cal-Santa Barbara, 5-4, but dropped a disappointing 5-4 decision to Fresno State...
Here's a work of fiction--no, scratch that, a testament of bitter truth--that answers a question unasked since the dawn of literature: What is a mortgage bond? The answer in Bombardiers (Random House; 319 pages; $22) seems to be: That which the selling of makes your teeth itch. The first sentence of Po Bronson's desperate, funny, booklong rant at bucket-shop marketing of financial chaos neatly pelletizes his entire volume: "It was a filthy profession, but the money was addicting, and one addiction led to another, and they were all going to hell...
...western half of the enclave, is shy, soft spoken and uncomfortable around foreigners. Jalal Talabani, who controls the east, is a garrulous jet-setter who mixes well at embassy parties. The only thing the two have in common is a long-standing hatred for each other. In an increasingly bitter showdown that has turned Kurd against Kurd, they are, says a Western diplomat in Ankara, willing to "risk committing national suicide...
...have a fantasy. Someday I will be old and bitter. [more bitter - Ed.] Eternity will stretch out before me and I will have nothing to fill my days but the depositing of Social Security checks. (If there's any Social Security left, the subject of yet another letter to the Prez). Then I will not have to polite. Then I can give free reign to my desires and complain to my heart's content. I will spend my golden years writing crotchety letters to Corporate America. Just the thought of it gives me a buzz...
...bitter fruits of their campaign lie scattered across the roads of Algiers and the surrounding countryside: burned-out carcasses of buses, cars, buildings and factories. The fundamentalists consider anything or anyone connected with the "infidel state" to be a legitimate target. Miles of telephone poles lie felled. A few months ago, the rebels began booby-trapping destroyed vehicles--and even corpses--with explosives...