My roommate, who'd spent his weekend protesting the imminent invasion of Iraq, had to open doors and beers alike for me, between grim discussions about intervention and dueling George W. Bush impressions.
Are we prepared to accept that, by the grim logic of our intervention, the only way we can avoid being defeated in Libya is by defeating him?
In an age when Mao posters adorned college dorms and Donald Barthelme ruled the nouvelle vague of fiction, the book made more sense than you might think; crediting a totalitarian icon with a thoroughly hip American mentality was wishful thinking of a merciful sort during the grim dénouement of our intervention in Vietnam.
The almost unspeakably grim end occurred despite intense intervention from the state practically from the girl's birth.
The intervention comes after a grim year for First which has been struggling under a near £2 billion debt pile following its 2007 acquisition of US school bus business Laidlaw before recession struck.
AM Street protests didn't secure intervention in Bosnia – bringing the grim facts to the wider world did and the resulting pressure on politicians did.
Without such an intervention, however, the future of work for women could be grim.
"You'd never get it on TV," one reporter later said, "so why even bother?" Not long before our grim tour, I had travelled to Mali to witness the aftermath of France's intervention.
"You'd never get it on TV," one reporter later said, "so why even bother?" Not long before our grim tour, I had traveled to Mali to witness the aftermath of France's intervention.
Little wonder, then, that the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has come around to the idea of the financial intervention that the European Central Bank announced Thursday afternoon in Frankfurt, just hours after the grim economic forecast was issued.
