Word: bleakness
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...poor? In the bleak and bitter outskirts of Buenos Aires, thousands of people stand in line every morning, eyes glazed by hunger, clamoring for government handouts. The residents of most lower-class neighborhoods have had to fend for themselves. In the city's northern barrio of San Fernando, Ever Ponce, 30, and his brother Miguel, 37, work as shelf clerks in a supermarket and try to make ends meet with second jobs as painters at a private airport. Hard-pressed as they are, in recent months they helped organize a soup kitchen for their hunger-crazed neighbors, lining up donations...
After losing to Yale, 1-0, last Thursday, Harvard's prospects for the title looked bleak. However, the race seems to be tightening up. The Crimson still must face Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown. Coach Mike Getman and his squad will need to capture all three games to have any chance. Even three wins would probably require help from around the league...
...pitch and accent wobble while she sings gloriously. Jonathan Pryce is deliciously campy yet sympathetic as the Engineer, a Eurasian pimp evocative of the emcee in Cabaret. In Salonga, a star is born. Playing a plaster saint, she is stunningly real. But the show's final moments are so bleak that despite an $8 million advance, its future may not be assured. Some downers, like Les Miz, are at heart ups. This one is only a down...
...These bleak statistics persist despite several decades of intense effort to attract and retain minority students. According to a study released last month by the American Council on Education, 8 out of 10 colleges and universities report either "a lot" or "some" activity aimed at boosting minority undergraduate enrollment on their campuses. At the same time, 60% give themselves only "fair" or "poor" success ratings in attracting black students; two-thirds give equally low grades for Hispanic recruitment...
...They brood, and mutter, and sulk, sometimes for hours on end, while on TV the Red Sox are slowly dying. That's fine, the author is saying, but not while there are children to be bathed, dinner to be zapped, vacuuming to be postponed. Her bleak message, alas, is that taking out the garbage is not enough...