Word: dismalness
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...economics—the “dismal science”—to be blamed for climate change? According to economics professor Charles D. Kolstad from the University of California at Santa Barbara the answer is no. “The economy as it currently functions does need changing, but that’s not the same as saying economists need to change their tune,” Kolstad said. Kolstad, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, discussed climate change yesterday afternoon...
...placing her old man in a fancy nursing home. As her brother Jon points out, the patient really won't be able to discern the difference between that and more affordable accommodations. Jon, however, is a somewhat withdrawn, phlegmatic and therefore somewhat unpersuasive man. A slightly shabby scholar in dismal Buffalo, he's writing a book on Brecht, while doing his best to avoid what seems to be a promising relationship or, for that matter, any adult responsibilities. He's a grad student in perpetuity...
Cutler isn’t new to helping others understand the “dismal science...
...basic problems are unchanged: people in the projects don't have the same educational and economic opportunities others do, and they feel like they're being shut away in their dismal neighborhoods because the rest of the country doesn't want them," says Raphaël Cazenave, a resident of the northern Paris suburb of Bondy who works with schoolchildren from the area. "The way these youths are expressing their anger and disgust is entirely destructive and stupid. Yet they'll keep doing it just as they have since 2005, because nothing has changed since...
...were made, the responsibility rests with me.” He was referring to the Iraq war, but he could have just as easily been referencing mistakes made at his alma mater, Yale University. Yet not even Bush can be blamed for everything that has gone wrong with that dismal institution. Rather, the morbid state in which Yale finds itself today can be traced back to a series of mistakes made by many different Yale affiliates. After all, the founding of Yale was based upon the biggest mistake of all when, in 1701, a group of ten Harvard alums thought...