Word: grimness
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Padilla went on to rack up a grim but not exceptional rap sheet of adult crimes--ranging from assault to unlawful carrying of weapons to the attempted theft of a doughnut. Almost every incident includes a charge of resisting arrest or fleeing the scene. He swiped at cops with knives, fists and feet, according to court documents. In between bookings, he worked as a dishwasher or in the laundry of Chicago hotels and restaurants. In October 1991, after he and his family had moved to South Florida, he was arrested for firing his .38-cal. revolver at another driver during...
...control of the agenda. Bush went before the cameras only hours after the televised congressional testimony of FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis agent who ripped the bureau's pre-9/11 bunglings in a letter to director Robert Mueller last month. A no-nonsense Midwesterner with a grim, credible tale of field agents being smothered by layer after layer of self-protecting bureaucrats, she told her story Thursday on Capitol Hill, where multiple inquiries into last summer's intelligence failures opened to the rumble of an early-season thunderstorm...
...Laden, whose al-Qaeda has aided Kashmiri armed militias, would love India to make the same mistake, for Kashmir to become one more entry in the grim litany of places where Muslims are supposedly oppressed by unbelievers. Then India really will be in trouble (not least with its 130 million strong Muslim minority). To avoid that fate, Delhi needs to do what it has never really done: recognize that Kashmir is a political question that needs a political solution, think hard about what such a solution might be and welcome outside help in finding and implementing it. India is indeed...
Meanwhile, the Core Curriculum still lives, a grim intellectual wasteland that blights the career of all undergraduates with its tedious and facile offerings that neither energize nor educate. It must be scrapped when it comes up for review next year and replaced with a distribution requirement that does not limit student choice and stultify students’ intellect. Instead of making the sweeping reforms suggested by Summers’ inaugural speech, the only change has been to exempt students from one additional requirement. And while exempting students from another requirement is a welcome step, it fails to address the larger...
With senior quarterback Neil Rose injured and Harvard facing a 21-0 halftime deficit to Dartmouth on Oct. 27, the Crimson’s prospects for continuing its march to a perfect season seemed grim. And in that moment of dejection, with perfection on the line, Morris made the play of the season...