Word: grimness
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Good decision or bad, at the moment it's the law--and that's grim news for the wolves. The 66 animals shipped to Yellowstone and Idaho have multiplied to 165--90 in Yellowstone and 75 in Idaho. Shipping them back to Canada is not an option, since the territory they abandoned has been claimed by other wolves. Placement in zoos--where wolves aren't popular--is difficult. "The options," says Smith, "could come down to one thing: killing them...
WASHINGTON: When he visits the White House Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu can expect to get an earful on his government's proposed limited and conditional withdrawal from the West Bank. "Prospects for the meeting are pretty grim," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "All the U.S. can hope for is to stop the process going completely off the rails by keeping the two sides talking about certain practical areas, and wait for Netanyahu's government to collapse...
Clinton Calms Indonesia A 20-minute phone call by President Clinton to President Suharto appears to have calmed the panic that yesterday sent Indonesia?s currency and stock market tumbling. Elsewhere in Asia, however, the picture looked grim...
...With his best school friend he hopped a train westward, as close to the Austrian border as they dared. Twenty miles out they were tipped about police checkpoints ahead. The news was grim: the Russians were storming through the countryside, arresting everyone they could. The two would have to race the Red Army to the border. And since no one would guide them, they gathered the last of their money, the last of their courage, and bought directions from a hunchbacked smuggler who spoke of secret byways the Russians hadn't yet discovered...
...that one advocate of tyrannicide was Abraham Lincoln, himself the victim of an assassin's bullet. Lincoln believed that when a people have suffered under a tyrant for a long time, all legal and peaceful means to oust him have been exhausted and prospects for his early departure are grim, then the people have a right to remove him by drastic means. McAllister is correct: this is not a job for Americans to undertake, but we should have no moral qualms about providing financial inducements or technical assistance to others. ERNEST W. LEFEVER, Senior Fellow Ethics and Public Policy Center...