Word: wretchedness
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To allay widespread skepticism, the government last week made other gestures of goodwill. At Crossroads, a wretched, ten-year-old squatters' camp outside Cape Town, where 18 blacks were killed by the police last February, authorities helped the first of up to 12,000 black residents make a voluntary move...
Uncertainty is scary, yes, but it’s fun, too. I go out at night now not knowing who I’ll meet or what will happen, but I almost always have a good time. I don’t know what I’ll end up...
(3 of 5) But in the wretched world of the non-custodial parent, Rob's ex-wife hasn't been his only source of frustration. A bungle by his solicitors, he says, locked him into making child support payments that rose if his income increased, but stayed the same if...
This is counterintuitive to say the least. We Filipinos live in a country mired in poverty, political conflict, corruption and environmental destruction. On top of that, the Philippines is so regularly battered by typhoons, earthquakes, landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions and other natural catastrophes that it's been ranked the world...
For a long time the near universal judgment on Salvador Dali was that he had outlived himself. The Surrealist work he did from 1929 to 1939 was brilliant and durable. After that came decades of repetition and kitsch, the years of his collaborations with Walt Disney-- never completed--and his...