Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York...
...manage to return to the inclusive and optimistic principles of the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, we can secure a bright future for Republicans and conservatives at Harvard. If we cannot, we will be in for another bleak and dismal year of mediocre and divisive Harvard Republican leadership...
That set the stage for last week's production of Jekyll and Hyde Visit Bleak House. Ferguson's courtly legalisms--``Did there come a time . . .'' and ``Is it your testimony that . . .''--and his formal complaints of ``Hearsay!'' or ``Leading the witness!'' chimed very oddly with the preposterousness of his core thesis, expressed in an eerie third person: ``The evidence will show that Colin Ferguson was in fact a well-meaning passenger on the train . . . Like any other passenger, he dozed off--having the weapon in a bag. At that point someone . . . took the weapon out of the bag and proceeded...
...only solution, then, is long term: convince people like Mr. Halpin that having good teachers for our nation's children is worth waiting a couple of months on that bathroom plumbing. The probability of succeeding in that persuasion is bleak, however; in state after state, voters have steadily cut back on education al funding, and with the Republican-controlled Congress looking to cut just about everything, further federal aid is unlikely at best...
...landscape is not bleak for everyone. Math and science proficiency has increased in the past decade, particularly among minority students, and SAT scores are also on the rise for blacks and Asian Americans. Compared with other industrial nations, Americans receive more education: in 1991 nearly two-thirds of recent secondary school graduates were enrolled in some sort of further education. The proportion of American college students who are minorities has been rising, from...