Word: bleakness
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...would be unfortunate. Alternatively, Harvard could takeover the apartment building across from 'Noch's. It already sports a dining hall in its basement with a House name to boot: Casa Mexico. So international! We could pay a bit of literary homage, perhaps to Dickens, and erect our own, uplifting Bleak House, or else name it for Harvard ingenue Jed Purdy '97, in order to showcase the stunning good looks of the new architectural wonder. Or, if Harvard built it on the site of the now-departed Coop Annex, it could, in homage to another of the site's previous occupants...
...hurts even more now. As overall forecasts for e-tailing turn bleak, beauty sites in particular are struggling. According to NPD BeautyTrends, out of some 300 cosmetics, fragrance and bath-and-body sites that were on the Web last fall, only 100 remain. Among the consolidations and casualties: Beauty.com which sold to Drugstore.com just two months after its launch; fragrance site Jasmin.com which was inhaled by luxury site Ashford.com and Beautyscene.com which sold to private investors in a fire sale after its finances got ugly...
...also include a depressive hangover, a down day that users sometimes call Terrible Tuesdays. "You know the black mood is chemical, related to the serotonin," says "Adrienne," 26, a fashion-company executive who has used ecstasy almost weekly for the past five years. "But the world still seems bleak." Some users, especially kids trying to avoid the pressures of growing up, begin to use ecstasy too often--every day in rare cases. In one extreme case, "Cara," an 18-year-old Miami woman who attends Narcotics Anonymous, says she lost 50 lbs. after constantly taking ecstasy. She began to steal...
Under the legislation before Congress, new means tests would force more borrowers into Chapter 13--leading to still more failures--and would eliminate bankruptcy as an option for others. For this second group, life will be especially bleak. Listen to their future as described by Brady Williamson, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and was chairman of the former National Bankruptcy Review Commission, appointed by Congress in 1995: "A family without access to the bankruptcy system is subject to garnishment proceedings, to multiple collection actions, to repossession of personal property and to mortgage foreclosure. There...
More concerned with plot than pathos, Brown presents his characters without judgment or sentiment, a courtesy he extended to all the luckless, hard-drinking, rootless denizens of his previous work. On the strength of his bleak, intimately detailed portraits of blue-collar Mississippians, and his insistence on setting his stories in and around his hometown (a region fictionalized by William Faulkner as Yoknapatawpha County), Brown is being celebrated as a new voice of the South, or, as he's also been dubbed, one of the "bad boys" of Southern literature...