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...After harassment and insult, altercation and despair, Knobler.com has been back online...
...beginning what I wanted to study." But the gist of his dissertation has surprised even Hamm. Previous research had created a literature of oppression. Hamm's interviews with factory workers in Juarez presented a different view. "Fairly consistently," says Hamm, "they portray a picture of opportunity and hope, not despair and disillusionment. I don't want to deny the literature of oppression. I just want to open up the possibility that other stories can emerge that ought to be considered." When people ask Hamm, now 58, what he expects to do with his doctorate, he quips...
...smaller conflicts. The destruction of the Russian parliament was in many ways the turning point in his presidency. As rebels moved across Moscow, meeting little resistance, close aides went to his office to ask for instructions. They found Yeltsin sitting in a darkened room, seemingly paralyzed by depression or despair. After the parliament's revolt was crushed, Boris the populist disappeared. The man who had once expressed near physical revulsion at the luxury (very modest, by current standards) of Soviet leaders now lived in a series of opulent residences in and around Moscow. He became withdrawn, a tendency reinforced...
...they make up only 25% of the patients enrolled in trials of new cancer treatments. There are reasons. Medicare doesn't reimburse the cost of experimental procedures, and older folks often have complications like heart disease and diabetes, making them too frail to tolerate aggressive new therapies. Don't despair. There are trials suitable for seniors; you need to shop around...
Filled with post-World War I disillusionment and despair, this allusive, fragmented epic became a touchstone of modern sensibility, and its haunting, haunted language sang the passing of old certainties in a century adrift. RUNNERS-UP The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats; Home Burial by Robert Frost...