Word: despairful
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...don’t despair quite yet: life outside of Harvard Yard isn’t so bad after all. It’s true that you will often have to leave a little sooner to meet a friend for lunch, or walk a little further to make it to the T, but you will quickly discover that living away from the hustle and bustle of the Yard can be a great experience. Here are ten reasons to love life in exile from the Yard...
...Don’t expect spring to come any time soon. It’s still very much winter, and, to compound your despair, it’s also time for the midterms cycle to start again. Extracurriculars and classes both become more and more demanding...
...become marginalized, their voices drowned by the sectarian din. In two general elections, Allawi has failed to get more than 14% of the vote, and the flight of middle-class Iraqis is eroding his natural constituency. He bemoans the growing power of sectarian forces but can only watch in despair. In private conversations even politicians with no pretensions of secularism occasionally wish for a unifying leader. Some months ago, Sunni leader Saleh al-Mutlak and I chatted about the kind of leadership it would take to pull Iraq back from the brink. We agreed that there were no giants...
...Scott), a surgeon who has just left his wife (Shirley Knight). Released in 1968, this astringent love story, which Lester (A Hard Day's Night) chopped up and brilliantly reassembled for the DVD, is full of awkward tenderness and eruptions of violence. It's a flawless, essential study of despair and compassion. Brick Rian Johnson...
...descriptions of battle, imprisonment and torture in Vietnam. The Senator's book, Faith of My Fathers, dryly relates the experience of "small pieces of hot shrapnel" tearing "into my legs and chest" and tells how, in solitary confinement, "the first few weeks are the hardest," as "the onset of despair is immediate." Not exactly a prime recruiting tool for your kids. Still, when it comes to them, McCain the elder is stoic. "I don't think there's anything unusual about Jimmy," he says. "There are, thank God, lots of young men and women like...