Word: hopelessness
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...Edward” was MVP of the NCAA tournament a year ago and would skate in the Olympics just two years hence. “A young man who has really given his future some thought. He has, this one, and he knows it’s hopeless.”* * *Donato had sworn to himself that if he ever made it to Contestants’ Row, he wouldn’t one-dollar-up anybody. He just wasn’t a one-dollar-up kind of guy. But in his second crack at The Item...
...harder task. It would have to step across the street in Alphabet City to the homeless community. It would have to ignore the Westchester rebels and focus on the New Yorkers who are trapped in poverty. It would have to leave out the comforting music and show the hopeless, sweat-filled, shit-stained, long, and agonizing reality of disease. “Rent”’s problem is not that it takes on this difficult task and fails. It is that it never tries in the first place.Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social...
...Massachusetts agrees. So we are thankful that Gov. Mitt Romney’s proposal to reinstate capital punishment in the Commonwealth met sound defeat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Tuesday. But there’s no doubt that Romney’s primary motivation for introducing this hopeless bill was not so much to debate the criminal code as it was to appeal to the national conservative electorate that he’ll need to capture the presidency in 2008. The bill only added to Romney’s track record of grandstanding to conservative voters nationwide, which...
...predict. Grow up in a rich family, and you can inherit either the tools to achieve (think both Presidents Bush) or the indolence of the aristocrat. Grow up poor, and you can come away with either the motivation to strive (think Bill Clinton) or the inertia of the hopeless. On the whole, studies suggest it's the upper middle class that produces the greatest proportion of ambitious people--mostly because it also produces the greatest proportion of anxious people...
...said to [the team] after the game that Brown beat Penn,” Murphy said. “The frustrating part is that we’re literally one play away from being tied for first and a 5-2 team.” Frustrating? Yes. Hopeless? Not anymore. After Saturday’s action, the top of the Ivy league looks like this. Penn, Brown, Princeton, and Yale all have one league loss. With two losses, Harvard sits right behind them having already lost to the Tigers and beaten the Bears. The big game for the Crimson...