Word: grimness
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...quality projects are presented in the months to come. There are signs they would. Françoise de Panafieu, the fiery mayor of the upscale 17th arrondissement and an unyielding Delanoë critic, says she's always thought that a nice big building in her neighborhood could enliven the grim ride from the airport into the city. "We're not going to take just any tower," says Panafieu. "We need one like a jewel." That's what everyone says, of course. But Paris, where tall buildings have too often been carbuncles, deserves nothing less...
Among advocates for peace, there are no optimists. There are only those like former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin, and former Palestinian information minister Yasir Abed Rabbo, who refuse to endure a grim status quo. After two and a half years of back-channel negotiations, they signed their unofficial Geneva Accord on Dec. 1, a detailed vision of a two-state solution that settles questions that previous efforts, including Bush’s stillborn Roadmap, dared not touch...
Even so, the ferocity of the fighting came as a grim surprise. The insurgents set off roadside bombs as the convoys' M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles entered the city. Then, firing brazenly at close range, the guerrillas traded gunfire with better-armed U.S. troops for two hours and 45 minutes. The G.I.s were stunned. "Usually it seems like these guys are afraid to die for their cause," says Captain Andrew Deponai, 29, the company commander. "This time was different...
...companies from raising prices; government debt that amounts to 158% of the gross domestic product (vs. 59% in the u.s.); banks that stifle entrepreneurship through their reluctance to lend money; and a government too paralyzed to mandate real reform. But as Canadian money manager Peter Cundill says, such a grim time "is exactly when you should consider investing, since buying a stock or a market at a low point nearly always works in the long...
...Serbs have tried and failed three times to elect a President (not enough people bothered to turn out) while the current coalition government's ceaseless infighting has "destroyed people's faith in the reform process," says one senior diplomat. All this is proving fertile ground for Tomislav Nikolic, the grim-faced Serbian Radical Party campaigner who is standing in for Vojislav Seselj while the boss prepares his defense. A former cemetery manager, Nikolic is traveling the country with a list of fiery complaints about Serbia's oppressors, from "soulless journalists" trying to destroy his party, to NATO, the Hague...