Word: doomfulness
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...crisis. But the subways run so efficiently, and their lurid reputation has retreated so far, that few people complain about anything except the next fare increase. A remake of Pelham One Two Three can duplicate the 1974 film's thriller ingredients: the criminal mastermind, the clock ticking toward certain doom, the runaway train, the ordinary man tapped for a suicidal mission. It just can't locate those conventions in a milieu with any political resonance...
...gloom-and-doom guy - I'm an optimist. I think we do have time to turn this around, and I think that the kinds of things we're doing will certainly help." - On his thoughts on the environment (Grist.org, January...
...afternoon in early May, an upscale audience gathered in Karachi to hear veteran journalist Ahmed Rashid speak on the Taliban threat. For years, Rashid has been Pakistan's Cassandra, prophesying an extremist-led doom to deaf ears. Now that the threat has become reality, he is a sought-after speaker. "I no longer say that there's a creeping Talibanization in Pakistan," he warned. "It's a galloping Talibanization." For 45 minutes, he expanded on his theme, explaining how the Pakistan Army's narrow focus on India has allowed the militant threat within the country to fester, how money that...
While The Crimson's home page is covered head to toe in doom and gloom-- the Yale Daily News has had merrier news to report. Over their front page? Their web site has gone all-out to report that planning for their two new Residential Colleges (the equivalent to Harvard's Houses) is going forward, and they even have architectural designs now. The sketches look like they're straight out of the Middle Ages, and FlyBy cannot tell a lie: they look pretty cool...
...principled leadership, but only the tea-party fringe seems to be following. "Nobody likes Dr. Doom," Sanford says with a smile. Leading a state with the nation's third highest unemployment rate, he understands the Keynesian idea that only government spending can jump-start a recessionary economy: "I get it. I'm supposed to be proactive." But if spend-and-borrow is the only alternative to a depression, he says, "then we're toast...