Word: doomful
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Five runs in the fifth inning of Game One against Cornell spelled doom for the Crimson’s hopes of winning this year’s Ivy title yesterday. In a game Harvard needed to win to keep pace with a streaking Princeton squad, the team played close until a series of bizarre hits and an untimely error put the Big Red ahead for good...
...worth the effort. Instead, it might be better to pay more attention to what the show attempts to pay attention to: the visual aesthetic. This is made confoundingly difficult, however, by the almost comically dismal lighting. In order to set what seems like an intended an aura of doom and gloom, the lighting plot has virtually no light. The effect doesn’t enhance the mood; it does, though, enhance squinting...
President Bush's decision to send General Anthony Zinni back to the Middle East is good news for Yasser Arafat, bad news (with a silver lining) for Ariel Sharon and a portent of doom for Saddam Hussein. The move came at the end of the bloodiest week of a 17-month intifada that has so far claimed more than 1,000 Palestinian lives and some 300 Israelis. More than 100 people died just this week as each side sought to ratchet up military pressure to force the other to submit...
...you’re still taking a class that you hate four weeks into the semester, there are a few options. You can continue on course and prepare for an awful four months. You can drop the class and either doom yourself to a hellish semester of five classes later on or try to find a class you can pick up after the first midterm. Or you can refrain from the academic equivalent of shoving a spiky rod up your own ass and fill out that little pink “Petition To Change Grading Status To Or From Pass/Fail...
...recent English Premier League contract - which involved a number of broadcasters including BSkyB and ITV and was valued at $2.35 billion over three seasons - were to be renegotiated, it would be worth only about 60% of current levels. Figures from across the sports world joined in the chorus of doom. Daniel Beauvois, the ex-ceo of ISL, issued a harsh warning that the same revenue-reduction fate could befall other sports-rights agencies. In Formula One, the fans seem to have sped away: viewing numbers for the motor sport have dropped about 5% since 1999. And both Greg Dyke, head...