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...Gweru, the sense of frustration was palpable. "Are we all doomed?" one audience member asked Tsvangirai. The day after the speech, I meet a group of MDC supporters in Bindura, an area of yellow-grass farms and bare granite hillsides an hour north of Harare, who share the gloom. MDC members there were among the worst affected by last year's violence. Mangezvo Chenjera, 38, an MDC village councilor, says that last June a ZANU mob smashed through the walls of his house, dragged him out, broke both his legs with iron bars and left him for dead...
...currently subsidizes professors—both from Harvard and other universities. But Murray stressed that although they would be looking seriously into raising the user fee for professors, they do not wish to “disrupt” faculty research. Not everything is doom and gloom at the nanoscale level, professors said. CNS is set to upgrade its equipment soon, and Westervelt said that an outside committee recently recommended that CNS invest more in microfluidic systems in health-related areas, which are “rather inexpensive” compared to semiconductors. While SEAS currently covers only...
...early to gauge the extent of corporate fraud triggered by the recent gloom, but with credit scarce and jobs precarious, there's little doubt we're in a boom time for scams. A majority of members of the U.S. Association of Certified Fraud Examiners who were polled in February and March said they had seen the number of company fraud cases climb in the previous 12 months; the bulk of those experts attributed the rise to heavier financial pressure. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...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...
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...