Word: bittersweet
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Emerging from Harvard's hall of mirrors, I sense a bittersweet surplus of irony and hypocrisy. I've continually been reminded of a Wall street Journal Cartoon which appeared only a few years ago. One member of congress walks by the Capitol as he confides to another: "I'm liberal," he says, "except where I'm concerned." This delicious quip has applied exceedingly well to almost all places and times, sometimes to my annoyance and other times to my amusement...
...next season proved to be bittersweet forMartins. He had the opportunity to be on a teamwith Ted Drury--two-time Olympian, 1992-93 Harvardhockey captain and current Hartford Whaler.Unfortunately, Martins was injured and played just18 games...
...year capped a bittersweet campaign for the netwomen, who came into the season looking to improve on their second-place finish in the 1994 season...
...whose husband was killed by Ferguson's bullets: "You are an evil person. You are not worthy of my time or thoughts or energy. You will be sentenced, and you will be gone from my thoughts forever." When Ferguson received six life terms, the survivors embraced in a bittersweet moment that seemed--finally--to close a terrible chapter of their lives...
...Honestly I'm honored," Butler said, "But it is kind of bittersweet to get any sort of individual award. I'm pretty sure that [Feaster] and I would have both traded it in for a league title...