Word: hopelesses
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...walks away red-eyed, talking about empathy. Women in distress are especially troubling to him. His mother was found to have lung cancer in 1984 and got radiation treatments. When the disease returned in 1988, "when it was hopeless," she fled back to the Southern Baptist roots of her childhood. The hellfire sermons and finger-pointing bothered the 15-year-old Michael, but he felt they might be worth it if God cured her. One morning, "at about 2:45," her coughing was loud enough to wake him. His father told him "it was nothing"--that he would just take...
Lloyd Webber always aimed for more than that, though critics weary of his incredible success have long dismissed him as a hopeless pop sellout. Whistle Down the Wind drew predictably mixed reviews, and its future looks cloudy. Yet it marks a step in the right direction for Lloyd Webber. The story, based on the 1961 British film about three children who discover an escaped convict in their barn and mistake him for Jesus Christ, has a welcome modesty and warmth, a far cry from the chilly Gothic pretensions of Phantom and Sunset Boulevard. The setting has been shifted from northern...
...next half-century. He cites familiar horrifying statistics: each year the nation paves over an area the size of Delaware; the average North American and his house and car emit 3.5 tons of carbon annually, 20 times the output of the average Costa Rican. Cut consumption instead of births? Hopeless; consumption "is deep in our bones, the way religion was deep in the bones of your average 14th century peasant...
Richard Holbrooke has become Washington's favorite last-ditch diplomat. The newly nominated ambassador to the U.N. doesn't balk at hopeless missions, but he doesn't always succeed either. Three years ago, he waded into the intractable war in Bosnia and crafted a cease-fire that has lasted to this day. In 1997, as President Clinton's special envoy, he stepped into the 24-year-old struggle between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus and has so far achieved no major breakthrough. Last week he gamely turned his hand to the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, the site of a festering...
...problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton in February, "could make it possible for every child with access to a computer to stretch a hand across a keyboard to reach every book...