Word: grimness
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...Indian Health Service (IHS) last week that echoes the goal to educate “English and Indian youth” outlined in Harvard’s 1650 charter. IHS is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Provost Steven E. Hyman and Charles W. Grim, assistant surgeon general and director of IHS, signed a memorandum of understanding on Feb. 21 announcing that they will be collaborating on an effort to improve the health of the country’s Native American population. “Improving our understanding of health disparities between Native Americans...
...menacingly in goosestep around three Yodok inmates caught trying to escape. Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing if not realistic, which is to say it's about as grim as can be. It revolves around a 26-year-old dancer imprisoned along with her family after her father is accused of spying for South Korea's National Intelligence Service. She's raped by a prison warden, finds herself pregnant, falls in love with a guard, then realizes her situation...
...Harvard fell below the .500 mark for the first time this season, a grim sign of a once-promising season gone awry. The team also lost its 17th straight game at Jadwin Gym, a streak that began...
...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...
...Canada and the United States, gold and silver medalists in Salt Lake City four years ago, both went out in the quarterfinals at Torino. As defending champion, Canada played the 20th Olympic Winter Games tournament as though doubled over by the weight of those expectations back home, displaying grim expressions, old legs and an impotent offense. By contrast, Russia embraced a youth-infused, why-not-us swagger, allowing its forwards to freelance and its goaltender to compensate as needed. Fittingly, sensational newcomer Alexander Ovechkin scored the winner as Russia eliminated Canada 2-0 on Wednesday; Sidney Crosby, his competition...