Word: hopelessness
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...military and business elite-and three of Forlani's Cabinet ministers. Police have accused some members of the lodge of offenses such as espionage, tax fraud, illegal currency dealings, even planning to undermine the state. Christian Democrat Forlani knew that his bid to form a new government was hopeless when he was told by Giovanni Spadolini, leader of the small but respected Republican Party, that an essential preliminary to forming a new Cabinet was "to shed full light on the P2 affair, to take all necessary measures needed to dissolve the lodge, center of pollution of national life, secret...
...Paige Patterson, Dallas Bible college president and leading hardliner, offer "a Dalmatian theology"-one holding that "the Bible is inspired only in spots." Once professors accept "human embellishments" in the Bible, Patterson contended, there is no logical place to stop, and Christians find themselves "cast on a hopeless sea of subjectivism." But Houston Pastor Kenneth Chafin, a moderate, called the inerrancy crusade nothing more "than a naked, ruthless reach for personal power...
...fundamental elements in Koch is his capacity to recognize lost causes and principles simultaneously, to wield hope against the facts?a capacity not acknowledged by those who think of him as the enemy of the hopeless...
Sometimes Jeffreys sings about these kids directly: the hard, hopeless downtown orphans whose hustle along the thin edge becomes a musical metaphor for political desperation and spiritual desolation. Often the kids lurk at the core of a lyric or, like phantoms, underneath a smart-stepping riff. Jeffreys does not always deal with them directly. His best tunes - many of them, like Mystery Kids, to be found on his newest album, Escape Artist -have the cool anger and the anxious tenderness of a street blood. A Jeffreys record is like a fast cruise across the radio band. Reggae, jazz and full...
...other evidence is strong enough to satisfy the jury. Or he can seek a postponement and ask an appeals court to overturn Browne's ruling. An appeal would carry considerable risk, however: under state law, the prosecutor may not appeal unless he declares that the case is hopeless without the evidence at issue. If the appeal fails, the prosecutor is held to his declaration that he cannot proceed without that evidence. The result is a dismissal of all charges. To some experts the appeal would be worth trying. Says Columbia Law Professor Harold Edgar: "I don't think...