This year, Mr. Bush's name was barely mentioned, much less Mr. Rove's, and the winner of the contest, Mr. Romney, offered a grim verdict on these past seven years in Washington — and arguably on Mr. Rove himself.
The family of the victim, Barry Grunow, 35, a popular English teacher at Lake Worth Middle School, was grim but silent when the verdict was read and left without comment.
Case File Priya Prakash, 22, software engineer, consulted several doctors, but the verdict was unanimously grim.
The Harris family, who like the entertainer sat grim faced and silent as the verdicts were read out, filed out without saying a word.
Mr. Stevens, a consistently grim-faced figure, frowned more deeply as the verdict was delivered by the jury foreman, a worker at a drug counseling center.
The verdict's still out, but things are looking pretty grim for a film that already has the most disliked trailer in YouTube history.
The outlook for social care is "grim", the King's Fund says, and the evidence for such a verdict is piling up.
The officers -- Sean Carroll, 37, Edward McMellon, 27, Kenneth Boss, 28, and Richard Murphy, 27 -- were as grim-faced today when the verdicts were read as they were when the trial began four weeks ago.
If the verdict were overturned, everything would be back to square one.Perhaps the biggest lesson from the verdict is yet another grim reminder of the nature of America's legal system.
