Word: dismalness
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...community space before, but in the context of community-building the need is most strongly evident. A student center would give students a place to congregate, relax and play, as well as hold extracurricular meetings and events. Currently the only common space for all undergraduates is the dark and dismal warren known as Loker. Tomorrow we will be addressing not only how the administration and students can work together to bring a student center to life, but also how we can immediately make Loker a more welcoming and useful space for student activity...
Jenkins and senior outside hitter Ashley Dean, who had a match high 25 kills, led Dartmouth to an early lead with a 30-28 victory in the first game. The Big Green defense held Harvard’s hitters to a dismal .098 combined kill percentage compared to Dartmouth’s hefty .340 mark...
Wireless Internet services are especially hot, as companies and consumers try to circumvent the continent's dismal communications infrastructure. Fewer than 2 million Latin Americans use wireless Internet technology today, but the Washington-based Strategis Group forecasts that by 2007, 48 million will. That's a key reason Atlanta-based telecom giant BellSouth this summer spent $25 million for an 11% stake in StarMedia. It hopes to use the ailing multilingual Latin American Web portal as a launching pad for services like e-mail on mobile Internet--"for those epic traffic jams we all know so well in Sao Paulo...
...Dismal as that performance was, it all seemed rather theoretical at the time. Not anymore. In the aftermath of the attack two weeks ago, the idea that weapons of mass destruction might be trained on the U.S.--not by such rogue nations as Iraq but by rogues like Osama bin Laden--suddenly seems a lot less unthinkable. Ordinary Americans are waking up in the middle of the night with nightmares about poisoned water supplies and miniature nuclear weapons set off in city streets...
...advisers are well aware of piety's place in Pakistan. There is a groundswell of people turning, or returning, to Islam for answers. Some do so as a rejection of America and Western values; others are seeking hope and a sense of purpose in an ever more dismal and disillusioning national scene. "This is a generation of hopelessness," says former National Assembly member Daniyal Aziz, "and people need hope to get by." Pakistan's institutions are weak, its political leaders are discredited and its economy is a shambles. An explosion of religious seminaries has filled the vacuum caused...