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...sessions around the world, the Moscow Beginners tell tales of & searing despair. For Sasha, a 37-year-old engineer, the horror culminated in 1987, when he was repeatedly hospitalized for alcoholism and his wife left him. "I was watching my life spin out of control," he now recalls...
...contrast, Sasha says, he is enthusiastic about A.A.'s methods. "The beginning for me was when I learned that the word alcoholic could be said out loud, that people would even applaud. With alcoholism, you have to admit despair before you can experience victory...
...Opening Day, all the doubt and despair of the next six months is superceded by boundless hope undying faith...
...death knell had sounded. I turned to leave in despair when a sign before my eyes proclaimed "March Is Nutrition Month...
...role models but also knocked the props from under churches, schools and other neighborhood institutions that provided stability and support for the impoverished. Middle-class flight, together with economic shifts that have resulted in a dearth of low-skill factory jobs, dooms the inner city to social isolation and despair...