Word: sad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...someday, come to an end. He says he scans the headlines of CNN.com every morning in anticipation of that day. “There is something in us that every day we hope communism will fall,” he says. Lage notes that while communist Cuba is a sad fact of life for his generation, it is even harder on his grandparent’s generation, many of whom will never live to see a free Cuba. Balmori was at his grandfather’s funeral the day Fidel Castro first announced that he would be stepping back...
...umpteenth time, I could look for clues to reveal how Naima went from being the quiet, faux-hawked dancer no one seemed to notice to Top Model. (Incidentally, she recently had to quit a waitressing job because she got recognized too often while pouring her customers’ coffee. Sad...
...astounding The THIEF AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Viking; 432 pages), "handed Britain the first worldwide monopoly of a strategic resource in human history." And Wickham? He got a pittance for his trouble and went off to farm sea slugs in the Conflict Islands, the quintessential Victorian sad sack: ignorant, incompetent, indomitable...
...Liberal bloggers are saying incredibly mean things about him, or so he's heard. "The venom, looking at the blogs and e-mail responses to the newspaper articles, I'm told--I'm really not online; I have an Underwood typewriter--but I see letters. And it's really sad. It would match e-mail for e-mail the worst Jim Crow remarks in the South against African-American voters." It's one thing to be so out of it you don't use e-mail. It's quite another to believe the technology has been around since...
...psychiatric disorders enable people to feel normal, not better than normal. Antidepressants bring people from the hell of severe depression to a sense of being able to function normally; they aren’t magic happy pills. Similarly, they don’t make normal and appropriate feelings of sadness (or anxiety or anger) go away; a person whose brain chemistry is balanced (with or without the aid of medication) feels sad, even miserable—just not hopeless or suicidal for months or years on end. (Thus, the argument that antidepressants eliminate great art is not only incredibly selfish?...