Another sell-off that started promisingly, Railtrack, ended in misery for investors who bought the shares at 380p in May 1996.
It can only end in misery – you either believe the crap or the good, or none of it at all.
Dick Norman's first trip to the United States Open nearly ended in misery before he turned around a match even he thought had been lost.
This even though Haiti's last flirtation with a low-wage assembly sector ended in misery after firms fled the country in the 1980s.
The Jaipur Literary Festival, a giddily chaotic celebration of the written word set on the grounds of a Rajasthan palace, ended in misery and embarrassment today, with the organizers bowing to pressure from local security forces and scotching plans for Salman Rushdie to "appear" at the festival, finally, by video link.
By David Remnick January 24 , 2012The Jaipur Literary Festival, a giddily chaotic celebration of the written word set on the grounds of a Rajasthan palace, ended in misery and embarrassment today, with the organizers bowing to pressure from local security forces and scotching plans for Salman Rushdie to "appear" at the festival, finally, by video link.
The two were strikingly similar: young British geniuses whose work was tied closely to the worlds of fashion and society, and whose lives ended in misery.
The movements of this truck may not sound very exciting, but you will find yourself longing for its presence because it replaces the toxic characters whose escapades end in misery, pain and, yes, no fewer than three beheadings.
Some of the great works of literature, from Sophocles to Shakespeare, Dickens to Dostoevsky, and Kafka to Camus, have inserted the law as the centerpiece of stories that often end in misery.
