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...annoyed by it. He refuses to talk to me or even look me in the eye anymore. He doesn’t even leave his Chem 27 problem sets on my desk for me to copy. Tell me, Dr. Jamison, Ph.D., how can I rekindle the magic with my forlorn friend...
...road. "He came up to me and said, Tom, don't leave; she'll retaliate. I said, she can't; it's in the contract. He said, I've called in two weeks in a row and she won't give me a time. He looked so forlorn. I grabbed his arm and said, Steve, I give you my word. I won't go back until you go back. How's that...
...head off such an outcome, the generals are waging a propaganda war to win back Burmese hearts and minds. Burma's state-run television broadcast footage over the weekend of military officers and their wives presenting gifts of rice and cash to an assembly of forlorn-looking, elderly Buddhist patriarchs in Rangoon. On Sunday, The New Light of Myanmar assured readers that the military was only targeting "bogus" monks and demonstration leaders with its purges. "Although authorities and security members pay respects to the real monks, they had to take action against those bogus monks trying to tarnish the image...
...deal welcomed by President Bush on Wednesday, North Korea has agreed to the internationally supervised dismantling of its nuclear program. It's certainly a foreign policy triumph for the Administration, and a remarkable turnabout of a situation in which the hope for denuclearization appeared forlorn only a year ago, when North Korea tested a nuclear weapon. The latest deal, however, required a change of heart not only on the part of North Korea, but also by the Bush Administration. Persuading North Korea to put down its nukes required reversing the position Washington has adopted since the advent of the current...
...complain that the Olympics are a sporting event and should not be linked to politics. If you look at the history of the Olympics--from the demonstrators gunned down in Mexico's Tlatelolco Square in 1968 to the boycotts of the 1980s and '90s--that would seem a pretty forlorn hope. Chinese activists, like others before them, have wanted to use the world's attention on their nation to reduce the iron grip that politics and ideology have held over their lives for so long. "The Olympics are about human nature," says Bao Tong, a former adviser to Zhao Ziyang...