Word: bleaknesses
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that would allow hunting under strict licensing. In a quandary, the government invoked another six-month talkfest, after which it promised to introduce a bill to settle the sport's fate. But the backbenchers are angry and hunting's future looks bleak...
Laura D'Andrea Tyson didn't accept her new job because of the weather. After all, who'd swap sunny California for bleak Britain? Instead, Tyson - who was U.S. President Bill Clinton's chief economic adviser from 1993 to 1996 - carefully weighed the pluses and minuses of a move from the dean's office at the University of California's Haas School of Business to the London Business School. "Weather isn't everything," says Tyson, who concluded that London is the place to be - a center for culture, commerce, the arts, business and world trade. Her task: to lead...
That setback was repeated in other spheres as Western (Christian) societies leaped ahead. When Muslims tried to respond, argues Lewis, they confused Westernization (which they rejected) with modernization (which they sought). It's a bleak road map of missteps to the Islamic world of today, impoverished in almost everything but terrorism and despotism. And while Lewis never poses it directly, he leaves readers to ponder an explosive question: whether a religion rooted in the belief that all truth was revealed to its prophet can ever successfully embrace change...
...have a good time, doesn’t mean he has to ruin it for everyone else, and tells him not to inflict his misery on the rest of the world. Rather than develop characters and move the story, Solondz would rather caricature detractors of his bleak worldview, and one is left wondering why even indulge them? There is even a sequence in Oxman’s documentary that is a send-up of American Beauty, where Oxman comments over images of the New Jersey suburbs that there is beauty in a lamp post. Here again, Solondz?...
...really, things don’t look that bleak for Harvard. It’s still tied for second place in the ECAC and—barring a complete collapse—will more than likely have home ice during the first week of the conference playoffs...