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And when you hear that the anti-Microsoft side has retained the services of that economic and technology expert Bob Dole, you start to despair.
After gaining independence from Western powers following World War II, the Arab Middle East followed an arc from initial pride and optimism to today's mix of indifference, cynicism, and despair.
will have taken on a grim new tone for us all, becoming not an anthem of celebration and joy but a somber dirge of melancholy and despair across the land.
The war in Yugoslavia continued to eclipse all other news across Europe Wednesday, with the Guardian of London leading its front page: "Day 21: more bombs, more death, more despair."
Gore's central claim--that the environment is at risk of being irrevocably despoiled--is merely a displacement of his personal despair.