Word: bittersweet
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...compare that to what awaits those lottery picks in their first year of the NBA. It must be a bittersweet feeling to earn a multi-million dollar contract while realizing that you must spend the next three years of your life playing for the Golden State Warriors or the LA Clippers...
...bittersweet ending for Harvard's eight graduating seniors, having lost their second consecutive bid for Lake Placid. The first class to end their careers with the Crimson under Mazzoleni, they leave knowing the program is well on its way to success. It's just unfortunate that they have to leave at this stage in the rebuilding process...
...this reason, it was a bittersweet feeling to see ex-Boston Bruins captain Ray Bourque take the ice last night wearing white and red, instead of black and gold. Bourque, who was originally drafted by the Bruins in 1979, was traded to Colorado on Monday. After 21 illustrious years with a now-flailing organization, Bourque--who has never won a Stanley Cup--deserves a legitimate chance to win hockey's highest prize before retirement...
...roof-raising American classical singer and the veteran French composer and pianist rendezvous for a session of bittersweet jazz songs. Legrand selected the tunes (all his own, including Afterthoughts and The Summer Knows), and his piano persuasively conjures the smoky languor of a Left Bank nightclub. But the star of this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument...
...cigars and music. There are issues that loom larger than a child custody battle. Regardless of what you see at Cultural Rhythms this weekend, as you pass by the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association's table of Cuban cuisine and listen to music playing in the background, realize that bittersweet mementos will never assuage the hurt of a people under the scourge of a tyrant...