The Bears hope their losing ways will, too.
But the Bears hope to arrive riding the momentum of their recent play, a string a close losses that included the most painful of all: a controversial 1-point defeat at U.C.L.A. on Saturday.
This is widely regarded as the end of the Bears' hopes, writes Melissa Isaacson on ESPN.com, unless, as Steve Rosenbloom writes in The Chicago Tribune, they find an entirely new way to win after offensive coordinator Mike Martz gets his head out of that bottle of Maalox.
Opener Mark Stoneman's 52 rescued Durham from 12-2 before spinner Jeetan Patel took 4-25 to give the Bears hope.
The Bears' hopes now rest on winning next week when they host bottom club Northants at Edgbaston, while hoping second-placed Nottinghamshire, who are only seven points ahead of them, beat Yorkshire at Trent Bridge.
Mr. Olmert said that Israel was "closer than ever" to reaching understandings that might serve as a basis for agreements with the Syrians and the Palestinians, adding that he would work until his last day in office to bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion "that bears hope".
It bears Hope-Weir's initials, with the inscription UTILI DULCI, taken from Horace, and translatable as "the useful with the sweet".
This approach bears hope to make treatment more efficient in responders and to avoid unnecessary side-effects in non-responders.
Marshall, jettisoned to Miami one season after Cutler left, was traded to Chicago in a move the Bears are hoping will reawaken Cutler's potential.
The Bears were hoping for more than that tepid revelation from Sunday's heralded showdown with the Green Bay Packers, what with the N.F.C. Championship and a trip to the Super Bowl on the line, but on the bright side, the backup quarterback discovery kept their 21-14 defrom from being a total loss.
