Word: hopeless
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...Rice might have been in another Administration, but she deserves a going-away Teddy for standing up to Vice President Dick Cheney, especially when she defended her excellent North Korea negotiator, Christopher Hill. Finally, General David Petraeus deserves a Teddy for his leadership in Iraq, a war that seemed hopeless a year ago, and for his role in the transformation of the U.S. Army. Let's hope that his intelligence and boundless optimism help the new Administration find a path to peace in Afghanistan...
...state of American public schools is far from hopeless as long as we are all willing to take some risks. In the face of massive dysfunction in many school systems, enterprising policymakers, experts, and even students have started to come up with inventive solutions. The rise of charter schools and the popularity of programs like Teach for America, which was started by a Princeton undergraduate, are good examples of this forward thinking...
...quarter than about the one we're in now. Some (Merrill Lynch's David Rosenberg is an example) think it will be even worse than the current quarter. Others (the majority) think it will be better. But none of that means very much, given that economists are close to hopeless at predicting that far into the future in times as tumultuous as these. It's the performance of the economy next year that will determine whether this is a deep-but-manageable recession - worse than those of 2001 and 1990-91, but along the lines of those...
...pretty hopeless romantic, so I always think it is going to happen to me. I do know a couple of people who met on the road and fell in love and lived happily ever after. Then again, I also know the two guys in my band who married women they met on the road and a few months later found themselves online researching "uncontested divorce...
Everything bad about Brett Dennen’s latest album, “Hope for the Hopeless,” is in its first track. Dennen is not a wonderful lyricist, his themes aren’t particularly deep, but as a whole, “Hope for the Hopeless” is a pleasant enough diversion. That first track, though, is almost enough to make you give up on the album. The song is called “San Francisco,” and it’s about a guy who leaves a bad relationship for the City...