Word: bleakness
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...victory by No. 78 Nguyen would complete the Harvard upset. But after he lost the first set, 1-6, Nguyen’s chances looked bleak. The junior looked one court over for inspiration...
...outlook is not necessarily bleak for the Crimson...
...bleak midwinter, Bill Clinton sits in the two-story garage out back, kneading memory into history. He scribbles his memoirs in longhand on legal pads, poring over notes and transcripts of his White House years. For the moment, this deadline is more pressing than raising money for India's earthquake victims or promoting peace in Northern Ireland or touring Miami nightclubs with Julio Iglesias. It is also lit by the incandescent question of the 2004 primary campaign: What does it mean to be a Democrat anymore? Having lost the White House and five straight House elections, does the party need...
Beilin and Rabbo’s bold initiative will not itself bring peace, a bleak history suggests, but can advance the cause—as long as the U.S. wrests the accord’s future from Sharon and Arafat. As soon as he knew of the accord’s success, Sharon dismissed it as subversive and treasonous, because it skirted his government, courted Arafat’s approval and boosted the political stature of opponents like Beilin, intent on Israeli regime change. Arafat, meanwhile, has qualified his private support with public vacillation, at once praising the plan...
...their cramped flat. And he begins to look for boats to Europe. After a week in the Libyan capital, he learns the name of a smuggler chief in the town of Zlitan, two hours east. "Abdi Ladif?" he asks someone on the street after arriving by bus in the bleak coastal town. He never meets Ladif, and no one seems to know for sure if he even exists. But his name opens doors. Still, when Abdi Salan finds his man, he's told there's a backlog of people waiting to depart. "Come back another time," the man tells...