Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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BOSTON—In last night’s road loss at Northeastern, roughly half of the Harvard bench wore mesh Crimson uniforms. The other half, donned in the grim black jumpsuits of the team’s injured, served as a constant and visible reminder of the team’s rotten luck. “We’ve been bitten by the bug real bad,” sophomore guard Lindsay Hallion said. Joining a trio of hobbled freshman on the sidelines was co-captain Jessica Holsey, who sat ominously on the bench with...
According to the most recent global figures released by the United Nations, HIV/AIDS has taken the lives of over three million people in the past year. Meanwhile, an estimated five million people contracted HIV, swelling the ranks of those currently living with the disease to 40 million. Whether these grim figures may be familiar or new to you, they inevitably remain too abstract to convey the destruction wrought by the disease in the lives of individuals, families and communities throughout the world. Though certainly jarring, the figures fail to describe both the demographics of the disease and the efforts being...
...Angeles has the largest homeless population and the highest poverty rate in the country, declaring that “we need to face this shame down and own up to our responsibilities.” “We still live in a society where opportunity remains a grim function of race and class for too many of our people,” he said. During the question-and-answer session, Villaraigosa touched on the importance of youth involvement in public service. “Young people have a very important role in society to be that catalyst for change...
...donated their eggs?a critical component for embryonic-stem-cell studies?for his research, and that an associate had paid other women for their eggs in 2002 and 2003. "Being too focused on scientific development, I may not have seen all the ethical issues related to my research," a grim Hwang said at a news conference in Seoul, announcing he would step down as head of the newly created World Stem Cell...
...chance to see what all the fuss is about. Weaving an account of the sexual awakenings of four young women through different stages in the life of Catholic-priest-turned-rights-activist Saman during the brutal regime of President Suharto, Utami offers a richly nuanced exploration of a grim chapter in Indonesia's recent past. With references to real events and characters, Saman evokes painful memories of an era marked by land grabs, forced evictions and military brutality. "The authorities have the power to buy or manipulate anyone," Saman muses. "When I think about the predicament of the poor...