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LeMoyne was bleaker about the chances of lasting success in the U.N.’s nation-building mission...
...descends into jarring absurdism, replete with violent mutilations, an unexpected murder and unhygienic pork butchery. Pigs become nearly indistinguishable from people, and Chan just rescues his work from an unsatisfying dissonance with an ending that returns to the film's essential sweetness. Life in Hong Kong may be getting bleaker by the day, but Fruit Chan knows the lights of Hollywood haven't gone...
...last week included a suicide attack on a bus in Haifa that killed eight. "It was a group decision," says a senior White House aide. "This was a turning point." Actually, it was much worse: Powell's mission to the Middle East, which began with lofty hopes and turned bleaker every day, was on the verge of being ripped apart by a single determined 20-year-old. On Saturday Arafat finally met Powell's condition for a meeting by issuing a statement in Arabic "condemning strongly all the attacks which are targeting civilians on both sides." At the meeting Sunday...
Bush’s proposal is certainly well-timed. In 1996 American economic prospects were on the upswing, welfare and food stamp rolls were diminishing and a tight labor market provided jobs for America’s legal immigrants. In 2002, however, prospects are much bleaker. Unemployment is rising, and those who immigrated here less than 10 years ago find themselves without a safety net. These are hard times, and welfare rules adopted in an era of bright economic prospects when America’s economy could accommodate an expanding workforce have become even more heartless...
...Russian commentators are taking great pleasure in the sudden shift from values the West once championed as inviolable, such as support for an impartial media and abhorrence of detention without trial, to a somewhat bleaker, more Russian perspective...