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...Lighting. Why does almost every dorm room have a useless, ugly fluorescent light inside? Too weak for reading and often sporadic in response to the switch, these lights only cast rooms into a dim gloom. The University should end the charade of these lights--install real ones or simply tell incoming first-years to buy a halogen torchiere...
More than any other Russian playwright, Chekhov is perceived in America as relevant to our age. This may be owing to his trafficking in gloom (any impulse toward optimism being, of course, evidence of callowness). But even his darkest interludes are subtle and variegated. There's a vivid moment in one of his stories when an awestruck boy beholds a flash of lightning: "someone seemed to strike a match in the sky." Something lovely is always dancing beyond Chekhov's horizon, toward which his characters gaze with palpable yearning...
DIED. JACK CLAYTON, 73, film director; from heart and liver trouble; in Slough, England. Clayton's work ranged from the unblinking social realism of Room at the Top (1959), for which he received an Oscar nomination, to the supernatural period gloom of The Innocents...
...trick will be to keep up with the competition while maintaining universal delivery. That famous promise -- ``Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers . . . '' -- engraved on New York City's main post office has a more reassuring ring to a citizen whose new 100-megahertz multimedia PowerPC just crashed for the third time. By Suneel Ratan/Washington
...confused you can't tell military issues from political ones. So I do not rule out the possibility that I might be forced to it out of necessity. But I don't really want to. If I get carried away in this direction sometimes, it is only out of gloom and desperation, not because I have some overwhelming desire to prove my political mettle...