Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even doom has nuances, and like Africa it has a thousand layers of meaning. The "margin" of one thing is also the center of something else. Africa has its own "centers," its resources of vitality and resilience. It operates by its own inner dynamics and metaphysics. Africa looks hopeless, but it is not. In many ways the continent is headed in the right direction for the first time in centuries. Real changes for the better are occurring. Africa is evolving African solutions...
...Project Freedom is saving lives. Frances Sandoval, founder of Mothers Against Gangs in Chicago, gets tearful phone calls from parents with kids too scared to leave a gang but terrified of staying in. "Unfortunately, there is very little I can offer them," she says. "In most cases it's hopeless unless they can literally pack up and leave. And we're talking about moving to another state...
...help explain why even grandparents who have never heard of Sergei Bubka will shout along with the Games, and why half the world tunes in. If the first joy of following sports is seeing skill at work in a partisan cause, the second is watching surprise defeat expectation. Every hopeless cause is everybody's favorite, and every 1,000-to-1 shot seems like our hometown hero. The pleasure of watching Michael Jordan play is almost matched by the very different pleasure of seeing an Angolan accountant turned point guard play Michael Jordan one-on-one. That...
...will make a decent living, the gap between rich and poor is going to keep growing. No fiddling with the tax code, retreat to protectionism, or job training for jobs that aren't there is going to stop it. Income equality, or even anything close to it, is a hopeless cause...
...world. Among his idols is Peter the Great, whose wild equestrian statue he passes every day he is at home. "It is the symbol of the city, of enormous power. Peter wanted to learn, not just to command. With great symbols and images like that, you can't feel hopeless or helpless." Gergiev may need every bit of the emperor's strength -- along with those Kirov vitamins...