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The pessimistic spin: He can't beat Vice President Gore, who is well-funded, well-connected, and leads in the polls.
South Africa's Johannesburg Star, commenting in an editorial on President Nelson Mandela's appeal to African leaders this week to rid their continent of tyranny, was just as pessimistic: "A man-made famine in Sudan, the current border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and ongoing difficulties in bringing peace to Rwanda are among outrages that suggest the end of tyranny in Africa is a long way off."
The pessimistic spin: There's only one thumb left.
The crisis in Northern Ireland led the front pages Monday of several European newspapers, including Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . With British Prime Minister Tony Blair having set midnight on Wednesday, June 30, as the "absolute" deadline for agreement on implementing the Ulster peace deal, British papers were pessimistic.
As W. Jackson Bate--my choice for the ultimate literary biographer of our time--wrote of Samuel Johnson, Powell's work would allow us to construct a vastly pessimistic vision of the human condition.