Recent Bleak News:
Fishermen meet amid bleak cod prospects - Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Fishermen and federal officials grappled Friday with the increasingly bleak prospect of finding some way for the historic New England industry to avoid collapse amid troubles with the health of Gulf of Maine cod.
Bleak Report on the Afghan War - Sun, 12 Feb 2012
Gen. David Petraeus and other U.S. commanders have touted supposed progress in the Afghan War to justify the escalation that they demanded more than two years ago, but a new report by an in-the-field Army officer found a less sanguine reality, as Gareth Porter reported for Inter Press Service.
Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House - Tue, 07 Feb 2012
In the middle of Bleak House, the heroine, an orphan named Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind. The first time I read the novel I was so shocked and upset by this turn of events that I wrote about it in my journal as if it had happened in real life, to someone I
Bleak House: Rules of reading - Fri, 03 Feb 2012
It's useful to remember that the great fat volume we're reading left its author, and reached its original readers, in a very different form As I write this, I'm just over a quarter of the way through Bleak House - which is to say, I've already read the equivalent of one decent novel and have another three to go. This month's Reading group choice is "“ as I'm sure plenty of people are discovering ...
Fidel Castro warns of bleak future, touts memoir - Mon, 06 Feb 2012
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir. The 85-year-old Castro, whose last known public appearance was at a Communist Party congress in April 2011, had to be helped to his chair, but was ...
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