Word: bleak
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...have pulled off their metamorphosis beautifully. “Return” chronicles human despair and those who try to escape it, largely within the familiar arena of love. The songs all have a vaguely cinematic air; each one focuses on a different mini-drama and advances the moderately bleak portrait that the album establishes. There are missteps, as on the lyrically bizarre “If,” but these occasional blemishes can’t mar the beauty of the album’s grander, more moving songs—ironically, those tracks most indebted to older...
When the Harvard men’s tennis team lost its first two Ivy League matches last weekend against Cornell and Columbia, the chances of winning an Ivy title this season looked bleak. Returning home this weekend, the Crimson played with a nothing-to-lose attitude, and put on a display of its best tennis of the year, defeating powerhouse Penn Friday and Princeton Saturday to improve its Ivy record to 2-2.“After those two losses, it was devastating,” said sophomore Dan Nguyen, who won both of his matches this weekend, including winning...
...bleak outlook for diplomacy fuels speculation that the U.S. and Israel might use military force to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities. While the military option is "never off the table," officials in both capitals say contingency plans for an air strike "are not under active consideration as an option now." Most experts say only that the U.S. has the air power and long-range fueling capability to carry out the multiple attacks that would be required to inflict serious damage on Iran's nuclear facilities--but they acknowledge that the U.S. military already has its hands full in Iraq...
...strike from classes, in protest of a new labor law, known as the Contrat Première Embauche. The law will allow employers to fire workers under 26 within a two-year trial period without advance notice. People opposed to the law fear it will worsen the already bleak job market for the younger generation. Harvard students studying abroad in France expressed mixed reactions about how the riots were affecting them. “At first I was slightly annoyed,” said Kate Wang ’07, who is studying at the Sorbonne. But as the strike...
...Rada could unleash the violence and disintegration the revolution avoided. "The country will not endure the ensuing confrontation," says Lytvyn. "Its stamina is exhausted." Fair elections are a legacy of the orange revolution. But denied an upbeat, Hollywood ending, Ukraine's political narrative could still turn into something as bleak and ambiguous as a cold war thriller...