Word: copely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just before Election Day, I quizzed some of my liberal friends about how they would cope with a Kerry loss. Their answers were variations on the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Of course, the more politically obsessive the friend, the more anger and depression were emphasized. One die-hard Bush hater couldn't even contemplate acceptance. "I will be incapacitated," she declared...
...high drama of an American election night, sooner or later officials have to get on with their jobs. In Asia, the second Administration of George W. Bush will face a series of challenges. The crucial relationship with China will make headlines, but Washington's leaders will also have to cope with unfinished business on the Korean peninsula, where North Korea's nuclear program remains untamed. The U.S. economy, too, is now intimately connected to that of Asia's. Here are some issues that will most absorb Washington in the next four years...
...fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly and inexorably are they pulled into McGann's web of darkness - and light. For in the sparky figure of Celia, we are left with a figure of unlikely hope...
...funk. "The fear that I have with this cancer," says Shinta, 48, whose disease has spread to her sternum and the lining of her lungs, "is the process of death. I don't want it to be long. I don't want my family to have to cope with it for a long time." For a cure, Shinta and thousands of Australians like her are at the mercy of medical science, the slim possibility that a miracle drug might be discovered in time to save them. Rather than obsess about that, Shinta chose to set the bar a little lower...
...member Jeanette, three of them explain how the therapy helped them after the shattering diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer. "I was spiraling down," says Sally, 47, whose cancer reappeared in the original site and on her spine eight years after she thought she'd beaten it. "I'm coping enormously better now, purely and simply because I can go to this group, this sanctuary. You can say what you like. No one's going to ridicule you, no one's going to laugh at you, no one's going to do anything but support you." And it's liberating...