Word: despairing
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...pulling yet another allnighter and run out of twizzlers and ramen, don't despair. Greasy, unhealthy, wonderful pizza is just around the corner...
...Times finds fault with Heaven's Gate for assuming "Godlike power" and determining that suicide was the way to the heavens. But provided that the rights of others are not infringed upon, and provided that suicide is chosen not out of despair but out of a firm commitment to a theological belief, society cannot fairly decry the choices made by Heaven's Gate...
...disapproved. Defying them all, knowing he risked far more serious violence, Netanyahu ordered the bulldozers to dig on. Now history will decide whether those few square yards were a necessary, legitimate addition to Israel's housing stock or a flaming brand tossed on the pyre of Palestinian impatience and despair...
Perhaps the only thing more remarkable than the heartbreaking squalor visible everywhere in Zaire these days is the extent to which the man responsible for it has insulated himself from the despair and the destitution. For more than 30 years Mobutu Sese Seko has imposed an uneasy unity on nearly 250 tribes strung across an expanse of Central Africa the size of Western Europe. The natural richness of this region and the willingness of Western governments to bankroll his regime have enabled Zaire's President to indulge in an uninterrupted saturnalia of misrule and kleptomania. He has squandered his country...
...sing hymns. It's a boring place, or a silly myth, or something people invent in order to make themselves feel better, or all of the above." Had Russell spoken these words a decade ago, it would surely have been in something close to despair. His tone today, however, can only be called cheerful...