Word: despairing
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...image is valid, but incomplete. There is reason for optimism, as well as despair. White rule has toppled; democratic institutions have emerged; and several of the nations--Mauritius, Namibia and Ghana--boast of growth rates that would be the envy of most other nations of the world. Africa indeed constitutes the development challenge of our time. But it is a challenge worth undertaking...
...talks: "ceos who rake in millions while their employees get downsized" would be an obvious theme, along with "Senators who voted for welfare and Medicaid cuts"--and, if he'll agree to appear, "well-fed Republicans who dithered about talk shows while trailer-park residents slipped into madness and despair...
SHAME ON CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER. HIS unsettling and premonitory ending to his article "Quebec and the Death of Diversity" [ESSAY, Nov. 13], "America is proceeding blithely down the path of diversity and ethnic separatism ... America's destination is the Balkans," does little except kindle a sense of despair and insecurity. Krauthammer avoids the tough questions: When and how will this happen? Can it be prevented? While he is right in noting that ethnically driven forces have the potential to tear the U.S. asunder, Krauthammer's essay is bereft of viable solutions or practical advice on what can be done. ALEX RIVERO...
...working for the Balkans office of the State Department at the time. We felt a horrible sense of despair, as if we were watching the beginning of the end of Bosnia. The U.N. allies would withdraw in disgrace. The capital of Sarajevo--whose residents stood in line each day for water and prayed that the Serbs' artillery barrage would not fall on them--would be captured. The dream of "Greater Serbia" might be realized. Our anguish mingled with the faint hope that the international community's latest humiliation might be its last, that the fall of Srebrenica would prompt...
...gleaming performance as Strachey--a physically frail, morally strong man who never asks for sympathy but somehow elicits it--almost redeems the film. Thompson, however, keeps undoing it. Hers is a commonsensical presence, and try as she may, she cannot catch the fever of hopeless love. Or the suicidal despair to which Carrington eventually came. You want her--and the movie--to rattle the teacups with rage. But they never...