Word: grimmer
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...report paints a far grimmer picture of Iraq than Bush has been willing to admit, and it repudiates many of his notions about what's sustaining the violence. Forty percent of Iraq's population of 26 million now lives in the "highly insecure" provinces of Baghdad, Anbar, Diyala and Salah ad Din. Bush blames the increasing violence on al-Qaeda, but the report notes that that the terror group is now responsible for only a "small portion" of it. The sectarian violence between Shi'a and Sunnis in and around Baghdad "causes the largest number of civilian casualties. Iraq...
...Meanwhile, every month that India spends debating the tiger's future, that future grows grimmer. As many as 250 tigers are slaughtered by Indian poachers each year, according to Wright, and as populations fall, poachers chase the animals deeper into the reserves. Nowhere is safe. In the Vidarbha region, which includes the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, a sanctuary where the tiger population had expanded healthily for a quarter of a century, 12 tigers have died in the past 18 months. Some conservationists suspect that other tiger reserves have already been virtually emptied of their inhabitants...
...Videos uploaded to the Internet by soldiers themselves depict, if anything, an even grimmer reality. Earlier this summer, the Council on American-Islamic Relations stoked a minor controversy over the video "Hadji Girl," which featured a uniformed Marine singing about falling in love with an Iraqi girl only to be ambushed by her family, after which he "hid behind the TV/ And I locked and loaded my M-16/ And I blew those little f___ers to eternity." Many defended "Hadji Girl" as gallows humor, but on the web there is no shortage of just plain gallows, either. A search...
...March 18. For decades, French fans have released a cockerel - the French national emblem - during the game. But last week, an official declared: "Any smuggled bird is a risk." ZOO STORIES Lacking any international standards, European zoos are devising their own strategies for dealing with possible outbreaks - some grimmer that others. Zookeepers at Frösö Zoo in central Sweden have said they are prepared to put down all of its 500 birds, including flamingos, if H5N1 enters the country. WORLD CUP Soccer fans were shaken last week when the German media relayed doubts over the 2006 World...
...fight only when his approval rating flirts with the 40 percent mark is no leader at all. Perhaps President Bush did come out swinging on Sunday night, and perhaps he even landed a good strike or two. But the larger picture for the remainder of his presidency is far grimmer: he has allowed his opposition to back him into a corner, and it will take far more than a few speeches for him to emerge from this position of insignificance. Drew M. Trombly ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a philosophy concentrator in Eliot House...