Word: grimness
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...kidding myself. He says that, like the rest of the people in my industry, I'm moving through the classic Kubler-Ross cycle of dealing with a terminal diagnosis. Old media has already gone through Denial and Anger, and are now Bargaining, looking for ways to beat the Grim Reaper. "Most of the product ideas that you all are coming up with in this bargaining phase don't make any sense from the customer viewpoint," he told me recently. "Anything that falls into the category of 'the web doesn't pay well enough and so we need...
...With these grim results, risking Darfuri lives for a poorly structured indictment process has proven tantamount to manslaughter—or at least gross negligence. Policymakers expected this reaction from al-Bashir. Shortly before Ocampo issued the indictment in July, a reporter asked him whether he thought the potentially terrible consequences of the arrest warrant would be his fault. Ocampo cavalierly replied, “Today they are being killed. Today they are being destroyed and have no hopes...
...looking to regroup and find its stride.“Honestly, [the weekend] was pretty disappointing,” freshman starter Brent Suter said. “We should have been more competitive, but we’ll learn from it and move on.”Despite a grim record, the Crimson has made some progress in its first two weeks of play. Many of Harvard’s young arms have seen action on the mound and the team’s bats have shown life throughout the lineup.With another seven contests down south, the Crimson will have...
Harvard affiliate Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center announced last week that it will consider layoffs to cope with grim financial projections. The hospital announced an anticipated $20 million operating loss for the fiscal year beginning next October, due in part to a projected decline in number of patients. The hospital hopes to break even, under best case scenario projections, for this fiscal year. The announcement is a marked departure from previous predictions of Beth Israel’s CEO, Paul Levy, who said in an interview last month that “we have chosen not to do layoffs...
...most powerful tools animal-rights activists have is the video footage shot inside places like poorly run dog kennels, animal-testing facilities and factory farms, used as grim evidence of the brutality that can take place. But how do animal-rights crusaders actually get those videos? Through people like "Pete," a 20-something undercover animal-rights investigator who, armed with a hidden camera, surreptitiously got a job in 2006 at an Ohio hog farm. The resulting footage - captured with the help of a group called the Humane Farming Association - and eventual courtroom drama that followed are featured...