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Serb twentysomethings are both despairing and corrupt.
He now slips in and out of lucidity before his despairing, Italian-born wife, Rezia (Amelia Bullmore); like Clarissa, he is haunted by the lack of permanence in all things.
I recall to my credit that, when she was despairing of ever doing anything more with her life and muttered, You can't teach an old dog new tricks, I cheered her up by flatly opposing her: It's never too late to learn.
La Stampa , in a front-page comment, called it "a punch in the stomach," comparing it to other sadly unforgettable photos such as those of the dead Che Guevara, the napalm-burnt little girl during the Vietnam War, and the despairing Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro as a prisoner of the Red Brigades.
) A writer travels to Baghdad and finds Iraqis despairing: Food and jobs are scarce, travel is impossible, and internal security is overbearing.