Word: bittersweet
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...Clearly this is a bittersweet time for me," Albright told reporters in early February while asking for some privacy to look into the revelations...
...years Adams House has more or less the same character it does today, then we have reached a bittersweet out-come. On the one hand, the survival of Adams as an institution would be a great thing, since it serves an important function in promoting the arts within the Harvard community. On the other, if the institution lives regardless of the makeup of the students who live there, then this turn of events proves an unfortunate truth that is indicative of a larger problem at Harvard. Often, it seems that the traditions of the many hallowed institutions that make...
...follows the premise of the play to its gory end. The play's ending reveals the cruel absurdity of the characters' attitudes by taking them to their logical extreme. Eventually, David can no longer coexist with his family: his perspective on life has been so altered by his bittersweet experience in the war that neither he nor his family can relate to each other any longer...
...turns out that Robert B. Reich, the former Secretary of Labor and soulmate of Bill Clinton, kept a diary. That's unusual in the subpoena-happy capital, and so is the tone of his kiss-and-shrug memoir--a bittersweet but ultimately forgiving account of his four years in Washington. In Locked in the Cabinet, to be published this month by Knopf, Reich describes his constant appeals to Clinton's conscience against the stronger pull of such personalities as then Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and presidential adviser Dick Morris...
...HAGUE: For a moral victory, it was a bittersweet one. Denounced worldwide as the thugs behind the bulk of Bosnia's war crimes, Bosnian Serbs Tuesday were cast as the victims, detailing horrific scenes of gang rape, torture and murder at the hands of Muslim a nd Croatian prison officials for a hushed United Nations tribunal. The trial of three Muslims and one Croat is the first collective war crimes trial since the end of World War II and the first to judge rape as a war crime. Seventy-six witnesses will make the trip from Yugoslavia to testify before...