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Cries of joy and despair erupted in the Yard yesterday morning as first-years discovered their upperclass housing assignments...

Author: By A. OMIYINKA Doris, | Title: First-Year Receive House Assignments | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...symphony of rebirth there is chord of despair, For in these early weeks and months of its life, the deer tick is even more microscopic than usual. For outdoorsy types this spells one thing: Trouble with a capital T. Because the Deer Tick trades in slow incurable death: Lyme Disease... Disease with a capital...

Author: By Nicholas Q. Kurzon, | Title: SB '94: Beach or Bust | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...have been to the Crimson Sports Grill so many times that they have named a drink after you, despair no more over a lack of places to go and things to do. It may only be a matter of months before gambling comes to a city near...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Legalize Gambling | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...intervention persist. Warlords are in the ascendant, bedeviling efforts by the U.N. and Somalis to negotiate a political solution. Violent attacks on aid workers have increased, threatening to reverse any progress made in the past year. The prospect of renewed anarchy has brought many Somalis to the brink of despair. "It will never be stopped," laments Mohammed Haji Yusur, a doctor in the port of Kismayu, where clan warfare has once again filled his hospital with the dead and wounded. "It will never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to The Bad Old Days | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

Despite the success of his comedy, Bergman didn't dally long in the realms of the humorous. In "The Seventh Seal," which was made after "Smiles of a Summer Night," Bergman turns fuly to the exploration of despair. In this medieval allegory, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), a Knight, returns with his squire Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand) to Sweden after ten years in the Crusades. Death, played inndibly by Bengt Ekerot, comes to take the Knight, but the Knight, Seeking to win a respite, challenges Death to a game of chess. The Knight and Jons travel the contryside, which is ravaged...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Bergman Receives Seal of Approval | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

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