Word: despairing
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...haves and have-nots increases generation after generation because of the great difference in educational opportunity. Since education is mostly paid by local taxes, the affluent neighborhoods are able to provide their students with benefits poor children cannot have. What happens to Jesse Jackson's urban canyons of despair? A poor family, living in a poor neighborhood, that sends its children to a poor school that educates them poorly and awards them worthless diplomas only creates more poverty. No wonder welfare can be a such a frustrating cycle! When America gets serious about rebuilding its cities, it must start with...
Coffey said Bergan should not despair. "I don't think that anybody can go wrong with any of them," he said...
...accumulated Palestinian fury. For months, Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials had warned of an impending explosion in the territories. In August, Ali Jirbawi, a political scientist at Bir-Zeit University in the West Bank, said, "Scratch the surface, and you find a state of anger." Palestinians were in despair over the paralysis in the peace process brought on by the election in May of Israel's hard-line Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Still, the ferocity of the convulsion shocked even its forecasters. Said a captain in Israel's border police: "This is our very worst scenario come true...
...pains you because it all feels so arbitrary. There is little correlation between how good you feel about a particular assignment and the response and grade you receive from the teacher. If anything, they are probably inversely proportional. Anyway, you certainly don't despair. You are simply more realistic than you were last year. You know there are no guarantees in this school. And I almost forgot--one thing you know now is that section participation does not count (there was a typo on your syllabus; by 15 percent, they actually meant 0 percent...
...make non-members feel that there was some real difference separating them, and thus absolving them of responsibility for a group of people who in reality, shared a common history, a common popular culture, and more basically, a set of characteristics of human nature-laziness and affection, ambition and despair--that were present everywhere that people live...