Word: grimness
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...western coast of peninsular Malaysia in June when his 9-m wooden vessel was approached by a rifle-toting group he assumed were policemen. "They fired some shots in the air and told me to get on their boat. They were young, about 25 years old, and grim-faced, looking like some gang from a movie, some of them wearing bandanas around their heads, all carrying rifles and a few with grenade launchers. I was really frightened. They told my brother to take our boat back and wait for a phone call...
...minutes of Internet fame by creating Sim Bush and Sim Kerry housemates). With the click of a button, you can even record the important moments of their lives as a movie file. Like the original, Sims 2 also features Wright's trademark humor, such as when the Grim Reaper shows up bearing a clipboard and a cell phone. Play this game out over many Sim generations, and you get as sublime a sense of the whole human comedy as any art form can give...
...unlawful detention, and Yukos' lawyers are bracing for the forced sale of the Yugansk subsidiary later this month. "Whoever buys it will be buying an enormous set of lawsuits," warns Stuart E. Eizenstat, a former U.S. Under Secretary of State who is advising Yukos shareholder Menatep. But prospects seem grim. Says Menatep's Osborne: "Grinding remorselessly toward the breakup of Yukos seems to be the Russian government's position at the moment. I am less optimistic with every passing day." For the moment, that's a message the Russia-bound oil companies are choosing not to hear...
...Surgeon General, only about a third of Americans have even tried to put together a family-health history. That's why he has launched the Family History Initiative and declared Thanksgiving National Family History Day. Sitting around the turkey talking about cancer and heart disease may seem like a grim thing to do when you're supposed to be giving thanks for everything that's going right. But since many families will be gathering for the holiday anyway, it's a perfect time to create a medical family tree...
...competition, we Harvard students simply can’t help that preeminence comes naturally to us. And with an undefeated football team this year—not to mention the only undefeated team in Division I-AA—the prospects for losing with dignity look especially grim for our dogged visitors. The powers of the universe must have forgot to throw our New Haven friends a pity bone this year, leaving them fittingly with a “mediocre” 3-3 Ivy League record...