Word: dismalness
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Graham gave the team a great gift for the hard-earned win--tickets to sunny Southern California over spring break. Harvard will play four teams on the trip, including No. 13 Pepperdine, before returning to dismal Massachusetts on April 13 for the Crimson's Ivy League home opener against Pennsylvania and Princeton...
Late last year, J.K. Rowling distressed zillions of readers by announcing that the fifth novel in her Harry Potter saga would not appear in 2001. The author sweetened this dismal news, at least a little, by promising to make available two books regularly read by students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Quidditch Through the Ages (Scholastic; 56 pages; $3.99) by Kennilworthy Whisp, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Scholastic; 42 pages; $3.99) by Newt Scamander...
...game hits the big screen, carrying Paramount's bid to cash in on moviegoers' newfound fascination with female action heroes. A hit could generate a succession of sequels, just the way Bond has. But the history of video-game transfers from the computer screen to the big screen is dismal. Remember "Wing Commander," starring Freddie Prinze Jr.? How about "Super Mario Bros." with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper? Probably not, or at least not fondly. Hard-core game fans, more familiar with controlling action than with merely observing it, are liable to sit in their local cineplex with itchy trigger...
...Minnesota may have played itself out of a certain NCAA berth with a dismal fourth-place finish in the WCHA tournament this weekend. The struggling Gophers are now 0-3-1 in March and 3-5-1 in their last nine games. That could leave just enough room for both Harvard and St. Lawrence to make the four-team NCAA tournament...
...dismal economics were not enough to scare off would-be radiologists, "failure to diagnose breast cancer" has become the profession's No. 1 malpractice expense. Mammograms, by their very nature, miss 10% to 15% of all breast cancers. That means that even the best radiologists won't spot one cancer for every nine they detect. (Adopting more advanced techniques like magnetic resonance imaging doesn't solve the problem. MRI scans are far more expensive than mammograms, take three times as long and are much more labor intensive...