Word: bleakness
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Surprised? Not exactly. But you have to consider that Yale, which landed in national headlines after the grisly murder of grad student Annie Le, is ranked #23—that is, slightly less dangerous than dear old Cambridge. The future seems bleak...
...links to the opium trade. As the Karzai government has grown more unpopular, the situation in Kandahar has deteriorated. The Taliban own the night, slipping death threats under the doors of those who would cooperate with the government. In Iraq the military's counterinsurgency strategy turned around a similarly bleak urban situation - notably in Baghdad, where U.S. troops helped the Iraqis regain control of neighborhoods by setting up and staffing joint security stations. But the troops who should be securing Kandahar are fighting an elusive enemy in Helmand. (See pictures of the war in Afghanistan's Kunar Province...
...time in a children’s home, and his father’s remarriage are mostly grim—young, scarred legs and bodily worms abound. But his frankness, perhaps the book’s most noteworthy quality, permits the often-comic process of learning to temper the bleak surroundings he sometimes faces. We watch his evolution through adolescence, transmitted in extremely spare formulations that one hesitates to call prose. It might be a good time to again call attention to the title; Hoffmann offers succinct summations, highlighting the most important images as the narrator perceived them...
...beat, strobing synth, and entrancing lyrics. Summer is almost over, so you won’t be able to enjoy Blind Man’s Colour next to a beach or pool, but they will remind you of that setting nonetheless, and for those listeners not from the bleak Northeast, help you get through the long, sunless winter. —Staff Writer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...university is doing what it can to support financial aid—which runs directly counter to the “elitism” the clothing line’s critics denounce. This is a case in which the benefits outweigh the incredibly small costs, particularly in a bleak economic climate that has already diminished or destroyed several other universities’ commitments to financial aid. Unfortunately, the media coverage of the clothing line has blown Harvard’s decision out of proportion. The reality is that Harvard is rightly doing everything in its power to ensure the well...