Word: despairful
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...pretty crude, and the learning curve is immense. You may think you understand Widener/microfilms/your topic/the nature of reality, but after a few weeks of reading you will realize how difficult it is to get sources, how foolishly broad your topic sounds or how banally obvious. Do not despair; it seems that all of us are humbled as we strive to join the company of educated men and women...
...which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack up and leave." But he can't move - his land has been quarantined, leaving him little to do but despair. "I wake up every morning wondering whether the wind has blown this devilish disease to my cows," he says. "You can only imagine the state of anguish I'm in." Full Story...
...sister's home in Surat, to the south? Is his body lying lifeless under some mound of bricks and stone?or was it dumped, unrecognized, on a funeral pyre, like thousands of others? The couple, small and frail in their mid-fifties, are trapped somewhere between hope and despair. Every morning, Karsanbhai heads out in search of Vinod, circulating among the NGO camps, government emergency centers and military information booths. He calls Surat to check if Vinod has arrived there. Sumati, meanwhile, busies herself in the tent she now calls home, emerging sometimes to help other women cook and clean...
...rhetoric is bound to increase in coming days as House Councils push their Masters to relent on the issue. (The Undergraduate Council's head honcho for UKA, Todd E. Plants '01, tells me he's confident students will win eventually.) But Masters needn't despair. Drunk students who misbehave will still be properly disciplined by HUPD and the ad board. And, if Masters want to express that they disapprove of students' early morning behavior, they will always have that easiest of options: They can tell...
...hard to know what steps people will take when despair rules. Novelist William Styron has long battled depression; his 1990 memoir about it, Darkness Visible, inspired Hartmann and millions of others. Last summer Styron underwent electroshock for the first time. He had asked several prominent psychiatrists about the option, and they agreed it could help. It didn't, though he says he didn't suffer any negative side effects. "Anyone who would ban it is ridiculously off base," he says...