Word: despairful
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Sunday afternoon Francophile, do not despair! The large cluster of café tables in the front of the restaurant are a perfect place to enjoy the offering of breads, a cute carafe of eau and perhaps even a little pot of the Earl Parsley or a shot of espresso. This would be, after all, a more authentically French start...
...basically a women-in-prison movie, set in Dublin in the '60s, when some girls were sent to convent reformatories, which, at least as shown here, were run by some very nasty nuns. They flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, drive them to despair or madness. The young cast squeezes every righteous tear from the audience. But Magdalene would be a better film - at least, it might have been a good one - if it had shown the nuns, themselves the victims of a cruel, cloistered mind-set, as something more than horror-film sisters of Satan...
...that the people on Kim's list are who the North Koreans claim they are. Umemoto's only proof that he was speaking to Megumi Yokota's daughter, for instance, was a dated photo of Megumi and an old badminton racquet. Yet the Yokotas have not given in to despair. If the girl in Pyongyang really is their granddaughter, says Megumi's father Shigeru, he and his wife are ready to go there to meet her. "We'd like to find out how Megumi got married and what her life was like...
...hopelessness or despair the Palestinians feel should be directed at a leadership that has sold them out. For the good of all in the Middle East, let's hope a leader who truly has the Palestinians' interests at heart comes forward. Richard Hanus Chicago...
...without a wage earner. And though he is religious, like most Palestinians, he is no fundamentalist with dreams of paradise. Jobless because Israel no longer allows laborers like him to enter the country to work, faced with relentless television images of Israeli violence and surrounded by poverty, death and despair, he awaits the order that will end his life. "Every member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is ready to infiltrate Israeli settlements or be martyred in any operation," he says quietly, without boastfulness. "These operations are not just to kill Israelis but to make the world pay attention...