Word: despairer
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...Immigration and shipped off to Guantánamo Bay. He finds himself trapped on an island that's become a maximum-security prison, designed by the people who brought the world Kentucky Fried Chicken: "Tiny battery-size cages, guarded by ignorant teenagers ... and characterized by a profound feeling of despair...
...face a shattered world. The shambles are many, scattered, and exceedingly sharp. In this way, we have much cause for despair. But, we face this task together—and in this, there is much hope...
...There’s is a lot of fluctuation between moments of sorrow and despair and moments of optimism,” he said. “The more time you spend here the more you realize how little you know about the situation...
...want to be the Dalai Lama? Bearing the burden of an entire people's frustration, anger and despair over half a century can't be easy at the best of times for their exiled spiritual leader. But since the anti-Chinese demonstrations began in and outside Tibet on March 10, the Dalai Lama has found himself confronting a swelling tide of opposition and defiance from within his community. So, on the one hand, he has to contend with Beijing calling him the mastermind of the violent protests in Lhasa, and to walk a diplomatic tightrope with the Indian authorities that...
...Tibet, we want the protests to continue," said B. Tsering, president of the Tibetan Women's Association. But since the passing of the Chinese deadline for the protestors to surrender at midnight Monday, the organizers of the protests in India have been treading a thin line between hope and despair - protests seem to have calmed down in Tibet and China, but every news of new protests and arrests brings a tiny blip of hope. They're far from ready to give up the protest altogether. Asked if they'd stop the march if asked to do so by the Dalai...