Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sure-fire NCAA tournament season turned grim for Notre Dame last year, but the return of starting center Torin Francis—the McDonald’s National High School Player of the Year in 2002—has the Irish primed for a return to the Big Dance, a journey it will begin tonight against the Crimson in its season opener...
...whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away. So is its logic--grim, brutal, absolute. --By Matt Rees. With reporting by Aharon Klein/Avigail
...David Mepham, head of the international program at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London: "I think I'm going to be depressed for the next four years. Bush is going to feel like he has a mandate to do whatever he wants." Can it really be so grim? Is there any chance Bush can return to his first-term pledge to be "a uniter, not a divider," even across the ocean? The good news - at least from Europe's viewpoint - is that Bush's second-term program may be chastened by his first-term failures. As long...
...Darfur male children are being murdered because the Janjaweed believe they could be future enemies. How dare my country ignore this grim situation! Why is genocide allowed in this day and age? Is it because it is happening on a continent that is mostly black? How can we turn a blind eye to this African Holocaust? You reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell, in congressional testimony, stated his conclusion "that genocide has been committed in Darfur, and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility, and that genocide may still be occurring." But in this election year...
Despite the grim conditions, nearly 1,500 boats and 7,000 rowers zipped down the 2.3-mile stretch of the Charles through Boston and Cambridge to the cheers of fans...