Word: hopelessness
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Harvard has a plan. Confronted with the cold outside world, we hurry home to our rooms and flip on our computers and bask in the sickly glow of the screen in our own hopeless attempt to create a light source. Halogen lamps sell by the hundreds as students try to desperately avoid the darkness that hangs over the campus when the outside world won't be observing. And safe in our hiding places, we do our work. Occasionally we venture to the library, an indoor heated area designed for study. True, Lamont is the most social place on campus, which...
...class entitled "My Personal Life 101." Rose is obviously a delicate flower indeed, witty and smart but resigned to the fact that she is just not that pretty, especially in comparison to her deliciously catty mother Hannah (Lauren Bacall) and sister Claire (Mimi Rogers). A cross between a hopeless romantic and a mental case, Rose cancels all her dates with the weirdos who pursue her, and instead lays around in pajamas eating cookies and watching baseball. Barbra has had a patent pending on this role for decades, and she plays it with ease and style and old-fashioned Jewish humor...
...into the distance, pining for someone who will know what type of toothpaste she uses, or how she likes her salad, with bad jazz surging from the Dolby THX surround-sound system and half the people in the theater moaning like they just had bad Chinese. For those hopeless romantics with the huge hearts and the iron stomachs, "The Mirror Has Two Faces" is definitely worth it. But for mere mortals, it may be a bit much to bear...
East Timor's situation seems so hopeless now that it is difficult to determine what the U.S. could or should do. But Bishop Belo has pointed the way to a sensible beginning. In his editorial, he called for "the release of East Timorese political prisoners, a step that could renew hopes for peace and and help the next round of United Nations-sponsored talks...
...close. The lopsided 5-1 score that marked the Terriers' triumph is not as hopeless as it sounds. Just ask B.U. coach Jack Parker...