Word: hopefulness
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...York theater: a play without laughs.) A cast of mostly Americans (among them Mary Beth Hurt and Victoria Clark) conveys the British and Australian milieus with as much authenticity as you're likely to find on these shores. The play is unrelievedly bleak but with a denouement of unexpected hope: a moving, almost revelatory evening of theater, and easily the best new play of the year...
Rand Paul is either the Republican Party's best hope to keep a Senate seat in Kentucky or its worst nightmare...
...great hope for Iraq's March 7 national elections was that could they could restore faith in the democratic process, and set a new tone of national purpose in Baghdad's corridors of power. The great fear was that without clear winners and losers, the elections could produce months of bitter infighting, heightening the sectarian and ethnic tensions behind the civil war that broke out after the 2005 election. And 10 days after the polls closed, with partial results tricking in and about 80% of the vote counted, Iraq appears destined for more trouble...
...didn't look that way in the beginning. There was hope in the first few months of Obama's presidency that the bad blood from the Cold War and the George W. Bush years could be washed away with little more than a push of a button. For example, on Obama's first visit to Moscow, last July, President Dmitri Medvedev agreed to allow U.S. weapons and personnel to pass through Russian airspace en route to Afghanistan. It was a huge relief to American troops, who had been trucking most of their supplies through the death trap of Pakistan...
...involved, the Red Shirts insist that their message continues to be one of peaceful resistance. The movement's leaders have denied any involvement, however, in a grenade attack on an army base in Bangkok on Monday that wounded two soldiers. "We categorically deny any involvement and we hope the police catch the perpetrators,'' said Red Shirt spokesman Sean Boonpracong. Police have arrested two suspects for the attack. Protest organizers had planned to spread the blood at Government House in the evening, but then announced it would take place later in the afternoon as the donations began drying...