Word: despairs
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McCain, a former Navy pilot, made the phrase a mantra during his 5 1/2 years as a POW in Hanoi. Prisoners would find reasons for hope or despair in the smallest things, leading to painful emotional swings. McCain kept his head by controlling his emotions and counseled his fellow captives to do likewise...
Hope is Africa's rarest commodity. Yet buried though it is amid the despair that haunts the continent, there is more optimism today than in decades. Francisco Mucavele found hope last September when an armored steel Casspir rolled over the hill and began to blow up the land mines contaminating Mozambique's rich soil. Olga Haptemariam acquired it in Eritrea's war-scarred port city of Massawa when she laid down 2,000 birr for a license to open a building-supply store. The villagers of N'Tjinina are finding it as they prepare for the solemn experience of voting...
...letters to the editor reflect praise and prejudice, hope and despair, doubt and certainty, love and hate, and make up a part of the history of that time [75 YEARS OF LETTERS, March 9]. It was a marvelous effort to combine and condense the newsworthy events of 75 years of TIME, but it was very thoughtful to include selected letters in the historical 75th-anniversary issue. The letters prove that values have shifted, thinking has changed, and outlooks are more insightful. Without the letters, the anniversary issue would have lacked a part of the history. MUSHTAQ A. CHOHAN Richmond Hill...
...Suharto's children and close friends. By telling the IMF that he wants aid on his terms and not theirs, Suharto has effectively bet Indonesia's entire economy, a wager so outlandish that foreign bankers in Jakarta have trouble concealing their admiration for his audacity even as they despair of his cavalier approach to balance-sheet realities. His brinkmanship has scared the IMF, which sees its worldwide credibility put at risk, and terrified other Asian countries, which fear that Suharto could suck their economies down with...
While walking through the Yard today I saw a poster that made me despair about the state of race relations at our fine institution. It read: "49 percent: The number of white males who believe that Harvard's Faculty is 'diverse enough...