Are people particularly excited to hear him speak again?9 37: Biden, the bearer of bad tidings: a parade of swing state voters.
Informed of these glad tidings in Senegal, the president at first suspected an April fool's trick.
AFTER serving up an unpleasant surprise for the Bank of England last month, official statisticians brought more palatable tidings this week.
The community has its own newspapers, such as Die Botschaft, a weekly, but this carries its news in the form of letters from readers, and tidings of family reunions, social occasions and church meetings are given more weight than world events.
The European company's news followed similar bad tidings from America's big chip makers.See article: The technology slumpRazorfish, a once high-flying American Internet consultancy, was said to be planning more job cuts.
With sufficient reflection, though, the shock players and fans felt upon hearing the grim tidings may be partially replaced by surprise that it took this long for a baseball player to be claimed by such a tragedy.
But recent weeks have added a particularly worrisome handful of bad tidings to the cauldron.
ALONG with the cards depicting jolly Santas and festive reindeer, the Christmas postman brought some young people tidings of great joy offers of places at university.
They point out that federal spending on prisons has almost doubled since 2005-06, when the Conservatives came to power.In this section Fiddling while the Amazon burns Pará-statals Pará-statals Bangtidings from the south ReprintsSome pressure groups like bits of the bill.
What a relief, only weeks after IS forces dealt Mr Assad's army a humiliating blow by overrunning a military base and marching its surrendered garrison into the desert in their underpants before riddling them with machine gun bullets, to have Mr Obama promise vengeance.In a different context this might have seemed a perfect birthday gift, adding to other recent good tidings for Mr Assad.
After inauguration on May 16th, he plans to make Berlin his first foreign trip he has never met Angela Merkel, the chancellor before taking the presidential Airbus to a meeting of the G8 at Camp David on May 18th-19th, followed on May 20th-21st by a NATO summit in Chicago.Mr Hollande will arrive at these crucial first meetings not just as a stranger, but as one bringing bad tidings.
