Yes, there would have been better ways to plug the fiscal gap, perhaps by slapping taxes on the extractive industries, but alas, that would galvanise too much opposition.
"I would be only too happy to die in my Prada or Gucci pumps, but, alas, that's not an option when traveling," Ms. Bartlett (who wears Skechers) wrote in an e-mail.
But alas that is not the case.
In health care, alas, that's a rarity.
But alas, that is no more.
In her first novel, "Martyrs' Crossing," she confronts the fraught political complexities of that country -- complexities that are, alas, all too timely -- and endeavors to render them with a literary rather than a journalistic eye.
That, alas, happens all too often, particularly in America, where 75% of households have no choice of provider for fast internet access.
But Simonson pulls it off, making "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" an entertaining and even rather moving novel of goings-on in a thin, gimcrack England that is, alas, only too recognizable.
The White iPhone, slated to be launched this year, was Apple's black swan, an odd, exciting, and desirable piece of kit that, alas, was too beautiful for this world.
We, alas, in too many ways, have been what the writer Kurt Andersen called "The Grasshopper Generation," eating through the prosperity that was bequeathed us like hungry locusts.
