Once a woebegone district characterised by criminal activity and crumbling architecture, Getsemani is undergoing a 21st-century renaissance.

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The woebegone often must cycle through two or more drugs to find one that works well.

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Many Belarussians feel more at home with Russia than with their own woebegone new country.

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We all want to believe in that mythical Lake Woebegone, where all the kids are above average.

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By the way, my home town is better than Lake Woebegone.

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Lake Woebegone may be fictional but the tendency of people to overestimate their own positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative ones is real.

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Amid its pious devotion to the woebegone, there are scenes that manage to twitch into life and hit a nerve, perhaps because they also bump the funny bone.

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Later this spring, Davis, who turned 19 in March, is widely expected to be the first pick taken in the 2012 NBA draft, departing college for millions of dollars and the heavy uniform of a woebegone franchise.

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In woebegone Hargeisa, the dusty and crumbling capital of Somaliland, a young university student insisted on paying for our tea at a cafe, thanking us profusely for engaging with him in a discussion about religion, politics and America that was eye-opening for Levi and me.

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