Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...redemption than the usual stuff of municipal politics. Wherever he goes, he talks about the "god force" that helped him recover from his drug and alcohol addictions. He claims to serve as a positive role model to young people caught up in the city's web of violence and despair. The city's children, he says, see him as "an example of somebody who got up off his knees, who was human, who overcame personal demons." Cathy Hughes, a black owner of several radio stations, disagrees. "It's like telling young people it's okay to shoot drugs...
...fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel, but it has a kind of perverse Hollywood glamour. When the camera holds on the gorgeous, thoughtful faces of Marlo Marron and Salma Hayek, beauty becomes truth -- the repository of hope and despair...
...proved more receptive to dealing with him. So Castro let it be known that his police would no longer arrest or even try to stop Cubans attempting to flee by makeshift boat or raft. Ergo, two problems solved at once: angry Cubans were distracted from turning their despair against Fidel, and he certainly got Washington's attention...
...control. While that would be far from ideal, it would still be in the U.S. interest to encourage it and seek through negotiation to promote political loosening too. The best way to do that would be to talk to Castro. Trade and investment that % might relieve Cuba's economic despair are the only ways to reduce the refugee flow permanently, even if Castro stays in power. His days of encouraging red revolution throughout the hemisphere are long since over; continuing to isolate Cuba only promotes hunger, desperation and floods of refugees that are not in anyone's interest -- including...
...calling Britton's death a case of "domestic terrorism" and promising federal aid to the local police. Women's groups were angrily demanding greater protection for clinic workers and full-scale investigations into other extremists. Behind the public rage was a great deal of frustration and perhaps even some despair. Pro- choicers began to wonder: What good is constructing an indestructible garment of laws to protect a constitutional right if some extremist simply ignores them all and blows someone's head...